Data encryption at rest for AWS Lambda

Lambda always provides at-rest encryption for the following resources using an AWS owned key or an AWS managed key:

• Environment variables

• Files that you upload to Lambda, including deployment packages and layer archives

• Event source mapping filter criteria objects

You can optionally configure Lambda to use a customer managed key to encrypt your environment variables, .zip deployment packages, and filter criteria objects.

Amazon CloudWatch Logs and AWS X-Ray also encrypt data by default, and can be configured to use a customer managed key. For details, see Encrypt log data in CloudWatch Logs and Data protection in AWS X-Ray.

Monitoring your encryption keys for Lambda

When you use an AWS KMS customer managed key with Lambda, you can use AWS CloudTrail. The following examples are CloudTrail events for Decrypt, DescribeKey, and GenerateDataKey calls made by Lambda to access data encrypted by your customer managed key.

Decrypt

If you used a AWS KMS customer managed key to encrypt your filter criteria object, Lambda sends a Decrypt request on your behalf when you try to access it in plaintext (for example, from a ListEventSourceMappings call). The following example event records the Decrypt operation:

{
    "eventVersion": "1.09",
    "userIdentity": {
        "type": "AssumedRole",
        "principalId": "AROA123456789EXAMPLE:example",
        "arn": "arn:aws:sts::123456789012:assumed-role/role-name/example",
        "accountId": "123456789012",
        "accessKeyId": "ASIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE",
        "sessionContext": {
            "sessionIssuer": {
                "type": "Role",
                "principalId": "AROA123456789EXAMPLE",
                "arn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/role-name",
                "accountId": "123456789012",
                "userName": "role-name"
            },
            "attributes": {
                "creationDate": "2024-05-30T00:45:23Z",
                "mfaAuthenticated": "false"
            }
        },
        "invokedBy": "lambda.amazonaws.com"
    },
    "eventTime": "2024-05-30T01:05:46Z",
    "eventSource": "kms.amazonaws.com",
    "eventName": "Decrypt",
    "awsRegion": "eu-west-1",
    "sourceIPAddress": "lambda.amazonaws.com",
    "userAgent": "lambda.amazonaws.com",
    "requestParameters": {
        "keyId": "arn:aws:kms:eu-west-1:123456789012:key/a1b2c3d4-5678-90ab-cdef-EXAMPLE11111",
        "encryptionContext": {
            "aws-crypto-public-key": "ABCD+7876787678+CDEFGHIJKL/888666888999888555444111555222888333111==",
            "aws:lambda:EventSourceArn": "arn:aws:sqs:eu-west-1:123456789012:sample-source",
            "aws:lambda:FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:eu-west-1:123456789012:function:sample-function"
        },
        "encryptionAlgorithm": "SYMMETRIC_DEFAULT"
    },
    "responseElements": null,
    "requestID": "a1b2c3d4-5678-90ab-cdef-EXAMPLEaaaaa",
    "eventID": "a1b2c3d4-5678-90ab-cdef-EXAMPLEbbbbb",
    "readOnly": true,
    "resources": [
        {
            "accountId": "AWS Internal",
            "type": "AWS::KMS::Key",
            "ARN": "arn:aws:kms:eu-west-1:123456789012:key/a1b2c3d4-5678-90ab-cdef-EXAMPLE11111"
        }
    ],
    "eventType": "AwsApiCall",
    "managementEvent": true,
    "recipientAccountId": "123456789012",
    "eventCategory": "Management",
    "sessionCredentialFromConsole": "true"
}

DescribeKey

If you used a AWS KMS customer managed key to encrypt your filter criteria object, Lambda sends a DescribeKey request on your behalf when you try to access it (for example, from a GetEventSourceMapping call). The following example event records the DescribeKey operation:

{
    "eventVersion": "1.09",
    "userIdentity": {
        "type": "AssumedRole",
        "principalId": "AROA123456789EXAMPLE:example",
        "arn": "arn:aws:sts::123456789012:assumed-role/role-name/example",
        "accountId": "123456789012",
        "accessKeyId": "ASIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE",
        "sessionContext": {
            "sessionIssuer": {
                "type": "Role",
                "principalId": "AROA123456789EXAMPLE",
                "arn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/role-name",
                "accountId": "123456789012",
                "userName": "role-name"
            },
            "attributes": {
                "creationDate": "2024-05-30T00:45:23Z",
                "mfaAuthenticated": "false"
            }
        }
    },
    "eventTime": "2024-05-30T01:09:40Z",
    "eventSource": "kms.amazonaws.com",
    "eventName": "DescribeKey",
    "awsRegion": "eu-west-1",
    "sourceIPAddress": "54.240.197.238",
    "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
    "requestParameters": {
        "keyId": "a1b2c3d4-5678-90ab-cdef-EXAMPLE11111"
    },
    "responseElements": null,
    "requestID": "a1b2c3d4-5678-90ab-cdef-EXAMPLEaaaaa",
    "eventID": "a1b2c3d4-5678-90ab-cdef-EXAMPLEbbbbb",
    "readOnly": true,
    "resources": [
        {
            "accountId": "AWS Internal",
            "type": "AWS::KMS::Key",
            "ARN": "arn:aws:kms:eu-west-1:123456789012:key/a1b2c3d4-5678-90ab-cdef-EXAMPLE11111"
        }
    ],
    "eventType": "AwsApiCall",
    "managementEvent": true,
    "recipientAccountId": "123456789012",
    "eventCategory": "Management",
    "tlsDetails": {
        "tlsVersion": "TLSv1.3",
        "cipherSuite": "TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384",
        "clientProvidedHostHeader": "kms.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com"
    },
    "sessionCredentialFromConsole": "true"
}

GenerateDataKey

When you use a AWS KMS customer managed key to encrypt your filter criteria object in a CreateEventSourceMapping or UpdateEventSourceMapping call, Lambda sends a GenerateDataKey request on your behalf to generate a data key to encrypt the filter criteria (envelope encryption). The following example event records the GenerateDataKey operation:

{
    "eventVersion": "1.09",
    "userIdentity": {
        "type": "AssumedRole",
        "principalId": "AROA123456789EXAMPLE:example",
        "arn": "arn:aws:sts::123456789012:assumed-role/role-name/example",
        "accountId": "123456789012",
        "accessKeyId": "ASIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE",
        "sessionContext": {
            "sessionIssuer": {
                "type": "Role",
                "principalId": "AROA123456789EXAMPLE",
                "arn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/role-name",
                "accountId": "123456789012",
                "userName": "role-name"
            },
            "attributes": {
                "creationDate": "2024-05-30T00:06:07Z",
                "mfaAuthenticated": "false"
            }
        },
        "invokedBy": "lambda.amazonaws.com"
    },
    "eventTime": "2024-05-30T01:04:18Z",
    "eventSource": "kms.amazonaws.com",
    "eventName": "GenerateDataKey",
    "awsRegion": "eu-west-1",
    "sourceIPAddress": "lambda.amazonaws.com",
    "userAgent": "lambda.amazonaws.com",
    "requestParameters": {
        "numberOfBytes": 32,
        "keyId": "arn:aws:kms:eu-west-1:123456789012:key/a1b2c3d4-5678-90ab-cdef-EXAMPLE11111",
        "encryptionContext": {
            "aws-crypto-public-key": "ABCD+7876787678+CDEFGHIJKL/888666888999888555444111555222888333111==",
            "aws:lambda:EventSourceArn": "arn:aws:sqs:eu-west-1:123456789012:sample-source",
            "aws:lambda:FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:eu-west-1:123456789012:function:sample-function"
        },
    },
    "responseElements": null,
    "requestID": "a1b2c3d4-5678-90ab-cdef-EXAMPLEaaaaa",
    "eventID": "a1b2c3d4-5678-90ab-cdef-EXAMPLEbbbbb",
    "readOnly": true,
    "resources": [
        {
            "accountId": "AWS Internal",
            "type": "AWS::KMS::Key",
            "ARN": "arn:aws:kms:eu-west-1:123456789012:key/a1b2c3d4-5678-90ab-cdef-EXAMPLE11111"
        }
    ],
    "eventType": "AwsApiCall",
    "managementEvent": true,
    "recipientAccountId": "123456789012",
    "eventCategory": "Management"
}