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AWS Certified Solutions Architect study material · question 57 of 500

After automatic rotation replaces a customer managed key's material, what happens to data encrypted before the rotation?

  1. It must be re-encrypted with the new material
  2. It becomes unreadable until the old material is restored
  3. It decrypts only if the application names the old key version
  4. It still decrypts, because KMS selects the material that encrypted it
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Answer: D. It still decrypts, because KMS selects the material that encrypted it

Rotation changes only the current material. KMS picks the right material for each ciphertext, so applications need no code change.

Source: Rotate AWS KMS keys (Amazon Web Services) — Rotate AWS KMS keys

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