Cloud KMS — Keys, Rotation and CMEK
How Google Cloud KMS really works: key rings that cannot be deleted, keys and versions, protection levels from software to single-tenant HSM and external key managers, automatic rotation, the 30-day destroy window, CMEK with service agents and Autokey, what keys cost, and the disabled-key outage interviewers ask about.
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