{"id":274,"date":"2021-03-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/azure-and-amd-enable-lift-and-shift-confidential-computing"},"modified":"2025-06-26T03:40:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T10:40:20","slug":"azure-and-amd-enable-lift-and-shift-confidential-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/azure-and-amd-enable-lift-and-shift-confidential-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"Azure and AMD announce landmark in confidential computing evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pandemic&nbsp;has&nbsp;accelerated&nbsp;digital transformation globally&nbsp;and&nbsp;the scalability&nbsp;and security advantages offered by&nbsp;Microsoft Azure&nbsp;have helped many customers move forward.&nbsp;One key tenet we have in Azure is that&nbsp;your data is your data.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Azure, we take your data security seriously and have built numerous controls around data at rest and data at flight.&nbsp;As a founding member of the Confidential Computing&nbsp;Consortium, we are also an innovator in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/solutions\/confidential-compute\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confidential computing<\/a> which extends those protections to data running on the processor itself.&nbsp;For more than 3 years&nbsp;financial services,&nbsp;governments,&nbsp;health&nbsp;care providers, and even messaging&nbsp;companies&nbsp;have been using Azure confidential computing to&nbsp;unlock new scenarios like multi-party&nbsp;machine learning and move their more sensitive applications to the cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, I am announcing&nbsp;that we are further&nbsp;broadening the&nbsp;confidential computing&nbsp;options&nbsp;available to&nbsp;Azure&nbsp;customers&nbsp;through&nbsp;our&nbsp;technology&nbsp;partnership with AMD, specifically&nbsp;by being&nbsp;the&nbsp;first&nbsp;major cloud provider&nbsp;to&nbsp;offer&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=apx4niGQPiE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confidential&nbsp;virtual machine<\/a>s&nbsp;on&nbsp;the new&nbsp;AMD&nbsp;EPYC\u2122&nbsp;7003 series processors.&nbsp;This new approach complements existing Azure confidential computing&nbsp;solutions&nbsp;such as confidential containers for Azure Kubernetes Service and opens the possibility to create new confidential applications without requiring code modifications which in turn substantially simplifies the process of creating confidential applications.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Key technology&nbsp;enablers&nbsp;to&nbsp;the AMD-centered solution&nbsp;include&nbsp;the advanced security feature called Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Secure Nested Paging, or SEV-SNP.&nbsp;SEV-SNP&nbsp;enables protection of&nbsp;virtual machines&nbsp;by creating&nbsp;a&nbsp;trusted&nbsp;execution environment&nbsp;and has been substantially enhanced&nbsp;in the 3rd&nbsp;Gen AMD EPYC processor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These&nbsp;AMD&nbsp;EPYC-CPU&nbsp;powered&nbsp;Azure&nbsp;VMs are fully encrypted at runtime,&nbsp;fulfilling the promise of confidential computing by&nbsp;protecting&nbsp;your&nbsp;data even when it&nbsp;is&nbsp;in use. The&nbsp;encryption&nbsp;keys used for&nbsp;VM&nbsp;encryption&nbsp;are generated,&nbsp;and&nbsp;safeguarded,&nbsp;by&nbsp;a&nbsp;dedicated&nbsp;secure processor on the EPYC&nbsp;CPU. This&nbsp;helps ensure&nbsp;that&nbsp;no one,&nbsp;even cloud administrators\u2014and by extension the workloads, apps,&nbsp;or data in the VMs\u2014have access to these&nbsp;encryption&nbsp;keys.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beyond the hardware, Azure provides a set of&nbsp;important&nbsp;services,&nbsp;including the <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/services\/azure-attestation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azure Attestation<\/a> service and trusted launch,&nbsp;to further help our customers.&nbsp;The Azure Attestation service collects evidence that the hardware environment is correct and&nbsp;then&nbsp;provides a cryptographic signal to <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/key-vault\/managed-hsm\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azure Managed HSM<\/a>&nbsp;to securely release the decryption key for the virtual machine image&nbsp;only if&nbsp;the environment is in a known good state.&nbsp;Subsequently, the&nbsp;decrypted&nbsp;virtual machine boot&nbsp;process is&nbsp;subjected to&nbsp;trusted launch&nbsp;to defend against&nbsp;bootkits, rootkits, and kernel-level malware.&nbsp;In this step,&nbsp;trusted launch&nbsp;measures&nbsp;the integrity of the&nbsp;virtual machine image&nbsp;against information stored in the&nbsp;vTPM&nbsp;before&nbsp;continuing boot processes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Customers can&nbsp;also&nbsp;bring&nbsp;a fully encrypted&nbsp;disk image to Azure,&nbsp;ensuring that the image is never available in plain text to the Azure environment.&nbsp;In this scenario,&nbsp;the customer&nbsp;prepares the disk image in their local environment using their own keys and then uploads the image to Azure&nbsp;while placing&nbsp;the&nbsp;keys&nbsp;in&nbsp;Azure&#8217;s&nbsp;single tenant FIPS level 3 compliance&nbsp;managed HSM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"in-summary\">In summary&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the&nbsp;3rd&nbsp;Gen AMD EPYC&nbsp;CPU-backed confidential computing VMs, Azure confidential computing now&nbsp;enables&nbsp;customers to encrypt entire VMs confidentially, enable confidentiality without recompiling code,&nbsp;and&nbsp;benefit from&nbsp;a host of Azure-specific enhancements. Today you can&nbsp;deliver confidential workloads on Azure with the broadest choice of hardware as well as resources spanning virtual machines, containers, SQL, and beyond.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/Pages\/ResponsePage.aspx?id=v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbR37R7JFLKbBAml_g6YTMEqtUOUlFNDhFMkFDS08wWjlPREIxMVk5T1BFUy4u&amp;wdLOR=cC0EE192E-837D-4E54-8CB9-FCCD0C7B018D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign up for Private Preview of Azure Confidential VMs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even before the pandemic accelerated digital transformation globally, the scalability and security advantages offered by Microsoft Azure prompted organizations large and small to migrate their data, applications, and workloads from on-premises data centers to the 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