Thalassa Cloud Launches Key Management Service in Early Access

kms security
2026-06-11
By Thalassa Cloud
Last year we shared that we were building KMS and Secrets Manager for Thalassa Cloud. Today we are happy to be opening our Key Management Service (KMS) in Early Access. What is KMS, and why does it matter? A Key Management Service (KMS) is where you create, store, and control the cryptographic keys used across your environment. Applications and platform services call the KMS API to encrypt data, verify signatures, or generate keyed hashes — instead of embedding key material in configuration files or managing crypto libraries per service.

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