Title: S3 Server Side Encryption
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# S3 Server Side Encryption

 *  Resolved [James Jones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamesjonesphoenix/)
 * (@jamesjonesphoenix)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/s3-server-side-encryption/)
 * Hi folks,
 * I’m backing up to Amazon S3 at the moment. So far so good. I’d like to automatically
   use the Amazon S3 server side encryption when backing up with Updraftplus.
 * I can log into the AWS console and encrpyt files manually. If I do a restore 
   with these files it completes successfully.
 * I’ve tried adding the policy at [this Amazon page](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/UsingServerSideEncryption.html)
   to the S3 bin. When enacted the backups can’t upload anymore.
 * Seems like this string “x-amz-server-side-encryption” needs to be set with value“
   AES256” and added to the upload request. But I’m not sure how to do that.
 * Any pointers to a filter? Thoughts? Any help would be much appreciated.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/updraftplus/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/updraftplus/)

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 *  Plugin Author [David Anderson / Team Updraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidanderson/)
 * (@davidanderson)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/s3-server-side-encryption/#post-6372342)
 * Hi James,
 * There aren’t any filters you could currently use in UD to achieve this, that 
   I can think of. It would probably be possible to fork the S3 library class that
   UD uses, load it via an mu-plugin and have UD use that.
    The UpdraftPlus way 
   of doing this is to encrypt the database client-side, before uploading. That’s
   a feature of our Premium version – [https://updraftplus.com/shop/updraftplus-premium/](https://updraftplus.com/shop/updraftplus-premium/)–
   and works with all cloud storage methods; and hence there’s not been demand for
   using S3’s server-side tech.
 * David
 *  Plugin Author [David Anderson / Team Updraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidanderson/)
 * (@davidanderson)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/s3-server-side-encryption/#post-6372546)
 * Hi,
 * A new answer! For various reasons, we decided to make S3 Server-Side Encryption
   a feature in our next release of UpdraftPlus Premium – which should be next week:
   [https://updraftplus.com/amazon-s3-server-side-encryption/](https://updraftplus.com/amazon-s3-server-side-encryption/)
 * David
 *  Thread Starter [James Jones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamesjonesphoenix/)
 * (@jamesjonesphoenix)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/s3-server-side-encryption/#post-6372547)
 * Awesome thanks for the update David! I must admit that I went to one of your 
   competitors on this project. But I generally prefer your plugin so will be back
   next time.
 *  Thread Starter [James Jones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamesjonesphoenix/)
 * (@jamesjonesphoenix)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/s3-server-side-encryption/#post-6372548)
 * Awesome thanks for the update David!!
 *  Plugin Author [David Anderson / Team Updraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidanderson/)
 * (@davidanderson)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/s3-server-side-encryption/#post-6372559)
 * It’s released now. 🙂
 * David

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 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [David Anderson / Team Updraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidanderson/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/s3-server-side-encryption/#post-6372559)
 * Status: resolved