Updated on 2025-04-16 GMT+08:00

Interconnecting with KMS

You can obtain the key sources from Key Management Service (KMS). Currently, Huawei Cloud is supported.

KMS is a cryptographic platform that provides key management services for third-party cryptographic applications.

Procedure

  1. Log in to a database encryption and access control instance as the sysadmin user.
  2. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Key Management > KMS Management.
  3. Click the Huawei Cloud tab.
  4. Configure the parameters for interconnecting with KMS. For details, see Table 1.

    Table 1 Parameters

    Parameter

    Description

    Region

    Region of Huawei Cloud. You can obtain it from the URL of the KMS console, as shown in Figure 1.

    Username

    IAM username

    User Password

    IAM user password

    Primary User Account

    IAM tenant name, that is, the account to which the IAM user belongs.

    Key Name

    Alias of the KMS key

    Figure 1 KMS console parameters

  5. Click Connection Test.
  6. After KMS is interconnected, click Save.

Follow-up Operations

After the configuration, you can select it by clicking KEY_Service when initializing a key. For details, see Initializing a Key.