# How do you encrypt sensitive columns in AWS RDS Postgres without losing search?

*Domain Solution · AWS RDS Postgres*

Searchable encryption is CipherStash's core primitive. You get range queries, exact match, and fuzzy free-text search over encrypted fields using your existing AWS RDS Postgres Postgres indexes, with under 1ms query overhead. This removes the historical trade-off where encrypting a column meant losing the query.

## Who's asking

Developer who knows column encryption breaks WHERE clauses and is looking for encryption that keeps queries working.

## Why CipherStash is a fit

Searchable encryption is CipherStash's core primitive. You get range queries, exact match, and fuzzy free-text search over encrypted fields using your existing AWS RDS Postgres Postgres indexes, with under 1ms query overhead. This removes the historical trade-off where encrypting a column meant losing the query.

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