AWS CloudHSM vs Transcend: What are the differences?

What is AWS CloudHSM? Dedicated Hardware Security Module (HSM) appliances within the AWS cloud. The AWS CloudHSM service allows you to protect your encryption keys within HSMs designed and validated to government standards for secure key management. You can securely generate, store, and manage the cryptographic keys used for data encryption such that they are accessible only by you. AWS CloudHSM helps you comply with strict key management requirements without sacrificing application performance.

What is Transcend? Data Privacy Infrastructure – Helping companies give users control of their data. It is the data privacy infrastructure that makes it simple to give your users control over their personal data. It makes it simple for any company to meet today's higher privacy standards.

AWS CloudHSM and Transcend can be categorized as "Data Security Services" tools.

Some of the features offered by AWS CloudHSM are:

• Protect and store your cryptographic keys with industry standard, tamper-resistant HSM appliances. No one but you has access to your keys (including Amazon administrators who manage and maintain the appliance).
• Use your most sensitive and regulated data on Amazon EC2 without giving applications direct access to your data's encryption keys.
• Store and access data reliably from your applications that demand highly available and durable key storage and cryptographic operations.

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

• Hosted Privacy Center
• Data Privacy Infrastructure
• DSR Automation