Enable Customer Managed Keys for your Organization on Google Cloud

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Step 2. Create the Google Cloud KMS key ring and key

Create a key ring and the symmetric key that you want to use as your CMK. Note the project, location, key ring name, key name, and key version because you will need them when you enable customer managed keys in

Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services

In the Google Cloud console

bar, enter

Key Management

The

Key Management

page opens.

Click

Create key ring

Configure the following properties for the key ring:

Property	Value
Key ring name	informatica-cmk-keyring
Location type	Region
Region	Select the appropriate region.

Click

Create

Select the key ring you just created.

Click

Create key

Configure the following properties for the key:

Property	Value
Key type	Generated key
Key name	Enter a meaningful name, for example, informatica-cmk-key.
Protection level	Software
Purpose	Symmetric encrypt/decrypt
Key rotation period	Optionally, configure a key rotation period.