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AWS Key Management Service endpoints and quotas

The following are the service endpoints and service quotas for this service. To connect programmatically to an AWS service, you use an endpoint. In addition to the standard AWS endpoints, some AWS services offer FIPS endpoints in selected Regions. For more information, see AWS service endpoints. Service quotas, also referred to as limits, are the maximum number of service resources or operations for your AWS account. For more information, see AWS service quotas.

Service endpoints

Region Name Region Endpoint Protocol
US East (Ohio) us-east-2

kms.us-east-2.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.us-east-2.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.us-east-2.amazonaws.com

HTTPS

HTTPS

HTTPS

US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1

kms.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

HTTPS

HTTPS

HTTPS

US West (N. California) us-west-1

kms.us-west-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.us-west-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.us-west-1.amazonaws.com

HTTPS

HTTPS

HTTPS

US West (Oregon) us-west-2

kms.us-west-2.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.us-west-2.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.us-west-2.amazonaws.com

HTTPS

HTTPS

HTTPS

Africa (Cape Town) af-south-1

kms.af-south-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.af-south-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.af-south-1.amazonaws.com

HTTPS

HTTPS

HTTPS

Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) ap-east-1

kms.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com

HTTPS

HTTPS

HTTPS

Asia Pacific (Jakarta) ap-southeast-3

kms.ap-southeast-3.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.ap-southeast-3.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.ap-southeast-3.amazonaws.com

HTTPS

HTTPS

HTTPS

Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1

kms.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com

HTTPS

HTTPS

HTTPS

Asia Pacific (Osaka) ap-northeast-3

kms.ap-northeast-3.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.ap-northeast-3.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.ap-northeast-3.amazonaws.com

HTTPS

HTTPS

HTTPS

Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2

kms.ap-northeast-2.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.ap-northeast-2.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.ap-northeast-2.amazonaws.com

HTTPS

HTTPS

HTTPS

Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1

kms.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com

HTTPS

HTTPS

HTTPS

Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2

kms.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com

HTTPS

HTTPS

HTTPS

Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1

kms.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com

HTTPS

HTTPS

HTTPS

Canada (Central) ca-central-1

kms.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com

HTTPS

HTTPS

HTTPS

Europe (Frankfurt) eu-central-1

kms.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com

HTTPS

HTTPS

HTTPS

Europe (Ireland) eu-west-1

kms.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com

HTTPS

HTTPS

HTTPS

Europe (London) eu-west-2

kms.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com

HTTPS

HTTPS

HTTPS

Europe (Milan) eu-south-1

kms.eu-south-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.eu-south-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.eu-south-1.amazonaws.com

HTTPS

HTTPS

HTTPS

Europe (Paris) eu-west-3

kms.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com

HTTPS

HTTPS

HTTPS

Europe (Stockholm) eu-north-1

kms.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com

HTTPS

HTTPS

HTTPS

Middle East (Bahrain) me-south-1

kms.me-south-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.me-south-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.me-south-1.amazonaws.com

HTTPS

HTTPS

HTTPS

South America (São Paulo) sa-east-1

kms.sa-east-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.sa-east-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.sa-east-1.amazonaws.com

HTTPS

HTTPS

HTTPS

AWS GovCloud (US-East) us-gov-east-1

kms.us-gov-east-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.us-gov-east-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.us-gov-east-1.amazonaws.com

HTTPS

HTTPS

HTTPS

AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1

kms.us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com

kms-fips.us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com

HTTPS

HTTPS

HTTPS

Service quotas

Name Default Adjustable
Aliases per CMK Each supported Region: 50 Yes
CancelKeyDeletion request rate Each supported Region: 5 per second Yes
ConnectCustomKeyStore request rate Each supported Region: 5 per second Yes
CreateAlias request rate Each supported Region: 5 per second Yes
CreateCustomKeyStore request rate Each supported Region: 5 per second Yes
CreateGrant request rate Each supported Region: 50 per second Yes
CreateKey request rate Each supported Region: 5 per second Yes
Cryptographic operations (ECC) request rate Each supported Region: 300 per second Yes
Cryptographic operations (RSA) request rate Each supported Region: 500 per second Yes
Cryptographic operations (symmetric) request rate

us-east-1: 50,000 per second

us-east-2: 10,000 per second

us-west-2: 50,000 per second

ap-northeast-1: 10,000 per second

ap-southeast-1: 10,000 per second

ap-southeast-2: 10,000 per second

eu-central-1: 10,000 per second

eu-west-1: 50,000 per second

eu-west-2: 10,000 per second

Each of the other supported Regions: 5,500 per second

Yes
Customer Master Keys (CMKs) Each supported Region: 10,000 Yes
DeleteAlias request rate Each supported Region: 15 per second Yes
DeleteCustomKeyStore request rate Each supported Region: 5 per second Yes
DeleteImportedKeyMaterial request rate Each supported Region: 5 per second Yes
DescribeCustomKeyStores request rate Each supported Region: 5 per second Yes
DescribeKey request rate Each supported Region: 2,000 per second Yes
DisableKey request rate Each supported Region: 5 per second Yes
DisableKeyRotation request rate Each supported Region: 5 per second Yes
DisconnectCustomKeyStore request rate Each supported Region: 5 per second Yes
EnableKey request rate Each supported Region: 5 per second Yes
EnableKeyRotation request rate Each supported Region: 15 per second Yes
GenerateDataKeyPair (ECC_NIST_P256) request rate Each supported Region: 25 per second Yes
GenerateDataKeyPair (ECC_NIST_P384) request rate Each supported Region: 10 per second Yes
GenerateDataKeyPair (ECC_NIST_P521) request rate Each supported Region: 5 per second Yes
GenerateDataKeyPair (ECC_SECG_P256K1) request rate Each supported Region: 25 per second Yes
GenerateDataKeyPair (RSA_2048) request rate Each supported Region: 1 per second Yes
GenerateDataKeyPair (RSA_3072) request rate Each supported Region: 0.5 per second Yes
GenerateDataKeyPair (RSA_4096) request rate Each supported Region: 0.1 per second Yes
GetKeyPolicy request rate Each supported Region: 1,000 per second Yes
GetKeyRotationStatus request rate Each supported Region: 1,000 per second Yes
GetParametersForImport request rate Each supported Region: 0.25 per second Yes
GetPublicKey request rate Each supported Region: 2,000 per second Yes
Grants per CMK Each supported Region: 50,000 Yes
ImportKeyMaterial request rate Each supported Region: 5 per second Yes
Key policy document size Each supported Region: 32,768 Bytes Yes
ListAliases request rate Each supported Region: 500 per second Yes
ListGrants request rate Each supported Region: 100 per second Yes
ListKeyPolicies request rate Each supported Region: 100 per second Yes
ListKeys request rate Each supported Region: 500 per second Yes
ListResourceTags request rate Each supported Region: 2,000 per second Yes
ListRetirableGrants request rate Each supported Region: 100 per second Yes
PutKeyPolicy request rate Each supported Region: 15 per second Yes
ReplicateKey request rate Each supported Region: 5 per second Yes
RetireGrant request rate Each supported Region: 30 per second Yes
RevokeGrant request rate Each supported Region: 30 per second Yes
ScheduleKeyDeletion request rate Each supported Region: 15 per second Yes
TagResource request rate Each supported Region: 10 per second Yes
UntagResource request rate Each supported Region: 5 per second Yes
UpdateAlias request rate Each supported Region: 5 per second Yes
UpdateCustomKeyStore request rate Each supported Region: 5 per second Yes
UpdateKeyDescription request rate Each supported Region: 5 per second Yes
UpdatePrimaryRegion request rate Each supported Region: 5 per second Yes