How can the developer implement encryption at rest for data within the Kinesis Data Streams?
Enable SSL connections to Kinesis.
Use Amazon Kinesis Consumer Library.
Encrypt the data once it is at rest with a Lambda function.
Enable server-side encryption in Kinesis Data Streams.
Explanations:
Enabling SSL connections to Kinesis ensures that data is encrypted in transit but does not provide encryption at rest for the data stored in Kinesis Data Streams.
The Amazon Kinesis Consumer Library (KCL) is used for consuming and processing data from Kinesis Data Streams. It does not provide any built-in functionality for encrypting data at rest.
While it is possible to use a Lambda function to encrypt data after it is stored, this approach does not provide native encryption at rest for the data stored in Kinesis Data Streams. The encryption would need to be managed separately, making this option less efficient and reliable.
Enabling server-side encryption (SSE) in Kinesis Data Streams provides encryption at rest for the data stored in the streams. This feature uses AWS Key Management Service (KMS) to manage the encryption keys and ensures that all data is encrypted automatically without requiring additional application-level changes.