The unified KMS-based approach has several advantages:

- Key management is now centralized. There is one way to change or rotate encryption keys.
   There used to be two different mechanisms - one for regular S3 objects and one for IAM data.
- Reduced server startup time. For IAM encryption with the root credentials, MinIO had
   to use a memory-hard function (Argon2) that (on purpose) consumes a lot of memory and CPU.