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Re:Amazon S3 will now encrypt all new data with AES-256 by d... by spullara on Friday January 06, 2023 @01:31PM (#34278839)
I don't believe that AWS sells its retired equipment, at least I could find no evidence for it and thus I think the likelyhood that someone gets a hold of an unwiped/unshredded SSD from them to be exceedingly low.

I am surprised that drive manufacturers haven't built in encryption at rest though since it would be pretty easy to generate a key on first boot and then make it easy to wipe by just making a new key and thus essentially scrambling all the data on the disk instantly without having to wipe them at all.

Re:Amazon S3 will now encrypt all new data with AES-256 by d... by zeroimpl on Friday January 06, 2023 @03:46PM (#34280797)
That’s called a self-encrypting drive (SED) and is pretty common. It just costs more and/or is slower.
Re:Amazon S3 will now encrypt all new data with AES-256 by d... by spullara on Monday January 09, 2023 @01:30AM (#34307462)
Common I think is a stretch but that is great.