AWS Key Management Service vs Acra: What are the differences?

AWS Key Management Service: Easily create and control the encryption keys used to encrypt your data. AWS Key Management Service (KMS) is a managed service that makes it easy for you to create and control the encryption keys used to encrypt your data, and uses Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) to protect the security of your keys. AWS Key Management Service is integrated with other AWS services including Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, and Amazon Redshift. AWS Key Management Service is also integrated with AWS CloudTrail to provide you with logs of all key usage to help meet your regulatory and compliance needs; Acra: Backend security system for SaaS and microservices, with strong encryption and intrusion detection. It provides data protection in distributed applications, web and mobile apps with PostgreSQL, MySQL, KV backends through selective encryption.

AWS Key Management Service and Acra can be categorized as "Data Security Services" tools.

Some of the features offered by AWS Key Management Service are:

• Centralized Key Management
• Integrated with AWS services
• Encryption for all your applications

On the other hand, Acra provides the following key features:

• Cryptographic protection of data
• Encryption
• Intrusion detection

Acra is an open source tool with 506 GitHub stars and 52 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Acra's open source repository on GitHub.