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Update AWS CloudHSM comparison. (#3311) 

* Update AWS CloudHSM comparison.

* Update hsm.html.md

* Update hsm.html.md
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@ -14,8 +14,9 @@ device that is meant to secure various secrets using protections against access
and tampering at both the software and hardware layers.
The primary issue with HSMs is that they are expensive and not very cloud
friendly. Amazon provides CloudHSM, but the minimum price point to even begin
using CloudHSM is in the thousands of US dollars.
friendly. An exception to the latter is Amazon's CloudHSM service, which is
friendly for AWS users but still costs more than $14k per year per instance,
and not as useful for heterogenous cloud architectures.
Once an HSM is up and running, configuring it is generally very tedious, and
the API to request secrets is also difficult to use. Example: CloudHSM requires