Microsoft has announced to extend its confidential computing options available to Azure Cloud customers in partnership with chip-maker AMD. <\/p>\n
The company said it will be the first major cloud provider to offer confidential virtual machines on the new AMD ‘EPYC 7003’ series processors. <\/p>\n
With the third-gen AMD EPYC CPU-backed confidential computing virtual machines (VMs), Azure confidential computing now enables customers to encrypt entire VMs confidentially, enable confidentiality without recompiling code, and benefit from a host of Azure-specific enhancements. <\/p>\n
“Today you can deliver confidential workloads on Azure with the broadest choice of hardware as well as resources spanning virtual machines, containers, SQL, and beyond,” the company said in a statement on Monday. <\/p>\n
As a founding member of the Confidential Computing Consortium, Microsoft is also an innovator in confidential computing which extends those protections to data running on the processor itself. <\/p>\n
“For more than three years, financial services, governments, health care providers, and even messaging companies have been using Azure confidential computing to unlock new scenarios like multi-party machine learning and move their more sensitive applications to the cloud,” said Mark Russinovich CTO and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure. <\/p>\n
The AMD EPYC-CPU powered Azure VMs are fully encrypted at runtime, fulfilling the promise of confidential computing by protecting your data even when it is in use. <\/p>\n
“The encryption keys used for VM encryption are generated, and safeguarded, by a dedicated secure processor on the EPYC CPU. This helps ensure that no one, even cloud administrators — and by extension the workloads, apps, or data in the VMs — have access to these encryption keys,” the company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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