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Encryption at rest just means the data itself is encrypted when stored on disk and the key is somewhere. It doesn't dictate that the key is not visible to the server.
Encryption in transit refers to an encrypted channel from client to server.
E2E encryption usually refers to encryption from one entity to another where any intermediary servers do not have the ability to decrypt
Source: too many years doing application security at my job