Working with security configurations on the AWS Glue console - AWS Glue
Adding a Security Configuration

Working with security configurations on the AWS Glue console

A security configuration in AWS Glue contains the properties that are needed when you write encrypted data. You create security configurations on the AWS Glue console to provide the encryption properties that are used by crawlers, jobs, and development endpoints.

To see a list of all the security configurations that you have created, open the AWS Glue console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/glue/ and choose Security configurations in the navigation pane.

The Security configurations list displays the following properties about each configuration:

Name

The unique name you provided when you created the configuration. The name may contain letters (A-Z), numbers (0-9), hypens (-), or underscores (_), and be up to 255 characters long.

Enable Amazon S3 encryption

If turned on, the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) encryption mode such as SSE-KMS or SSE-S3 is enabled for metadata store in the data catalog.

Enable Amazon CloudWatch logs encryption

If turned on, the Amazon S3 encryption mode such as SSE-KMS is enabled when writing logs to Amazon CloudWatch.

Advanced settings: Enable job bookmark encryption

If turned on, the Amazon S3 encryption mode such as CSE-KMS is enabled when jobs are bookmarked.

You can add or delete configurations in the Security configurations section on the console. To see more details for a configuration, choose the configuration name in the list. Details include the information that you defined when you created the configuration.

Adding a security configuration

To add a security configuration using the AWS Glue console, on the Security configurations page, choose Add security configuration.

The screenshot shows the Add security configuration page.

Security configuration properties

Enter a unique security configuration name. The name may contain letters (A-Z), numbers (0-9), hyphens (-), or underscores (_), and can be up to 255 characters long.

Encryption settings

You can enable at-rest enncryption for metadata stored in the data catalog in Amazon S3 and logs in Amazon CloudWatch. To set up encryption of data and metadata with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys on the AWS Glue console, add a policy to the console user. This policy must specify the allowed resources as key Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) that are used to encrypt Amazon S3 data stores, as in the following example.

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": {
  "Effect": "Allow",
  "Action": [
    "kms:GenerateDataKey",
    "kms:Decrypt",    
    "kms:Encrypt"],
  "Resource": "arn:aws:kms:region:account-id:key/key-id"}
}
Important

When a security configuration is attached to a crawler or job, the IAM role that is passed must have AWS KMS permissions. For more information, see Encrypting data written by crawlers, jobs, and development endpoints.

When you define a configuration, you can provide values for the following properties:

Enable S3 encryption

When you are writing Amazon S3 data, you use either server-side encryption with Amazon S3 managed keys (SSE-S3) or server-side encryption with AWS KMS managed keys (SSE-KMS). This field is optional. To allow access to Amazon S3, choose an AWS KMS key, or choose Enter a key ARN and provide the ARN for the key. Enter the ARN in the form arn:aws:kms:region:account-id:key/key-id. You can also provide the ARN as a key alias, such as arn:aws:kms:region:account-id:alias/alias-name.

Important

AWS Glue supports only symmetric customer master keys (CMKs). The AWS KMS key list displays only symmetric keys. However, if you select Choose a AWS KMS key ARN, the console lets you enter an ARN for any key type. Ensure that you enter only ARNs for symmetric keys.

Enable CloudWatch Logs encryption

Server-side (SSE-KMS) encryption is used to encrypt CloudWatch Logs. This field is optional. To turn it on, choose an AWS KMS key, or choose Enter a key ARN and provide the ARN for the key. Enter the ARN in the form arn:aws:kms:region:account-id:key/key-id. You can also provide the ARN as a key alias, such as arn:aws:kms:region:account-id:alias/alias-name.

Advanced settings: Job bookmark encryption

Client-side (CSE-KMS) encryption is used to encrypt job bookmarks. This field is optional. The bookmark data is encrypted before it is sent to Amazon S3 for storage. To turn it on, choose an AWS KMS key, or choose Enter a key ARN and provide the ARN for the key. Enter the ARN in the form arn:aws:kms:region:account-id:key/key-id. You can also provide the ARN as a key alias, such as arn:aws:kms:region:account-id:alias/alias-name.

For more information, see the following topics in the Amazon Simple Storage Service User Guide: