AWS Security Cookbook

How it works...

In this recipe, we created a CloudHSM cluster. I used the default VPC for convenience. You can also use it if you are experimenting with HSM for learning purposes. For practical use cases, you should install HSM into a private subnet within a custom VPC. We will look at VPCs in detail in the next chapter.

In the next recipe, we will initialize our cluster and create our first HSM. CloudHSM does not have a free tier. A provisioned HSM can cost you money for every hour it runs, so if you are following these recipes for learning or experimentation purposes, do make sure you complete the next recipe as fast as you can and clean up all the resources once you are done.