AMD shares technical details on the technology that powers its innovative secret computing-leading cloud products

SANTA CLARA, California, August 30, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced today that it has published the source code for AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) technology, the backbone of AMD EPYC^™ Processor-based Confidential Virtual Machines (VMs) available from cloud service providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Computing Infrastructure (OCI) .
This release from AMD will bring greater transparency to the security industry and give customers the opportunity to scrutinize the technology behind confidential computing virtual machines powered by AMD EPYC processors. .
“As a leader in confidential computing, we are committed to relentlessly pursuing innovation and creating secure features,” said Mark Papermaster, executive vice president and chief technology officer, AMD. modern complements the most advanced cloud services of our ecosystem partners.” “By sharing the foundation of SEV technology, we are bringing transparency to confidential computing and demonstrating our dedication to open source. The participation of the open source community will further enhance this important technology for our partners and customers who expect nothing less than maximum protection for their most valuable assets. – their data.”
“At Google Cloud, we are focused on our mission to help customers protect their data throughout its entire lifecycle,” said Jeff Reed, Vice President, Cloud Security, Google Cloud. “As the first cloud provider to support AMD’s in-use encryption, this release marks another milestone in our longstanding partnership to ensure transparency. , robust and secure data during processing at Google Cloud.”
“We welcome AMD’s decision to make part of their security firmware available for public inspection. This is entirely in line with Azure’s secret computing philosophy of going open source and sourcing our own code when practical.” Mark Russinovich, Azure CTO and Technical Fellow, Microsoft.

Expand your cloud provider capabilities with AMD processors
AMD EPYC processors provide world-class performance and state-of-the-art security features to protect data at rest, in transit, and in use. The processor is at the heart of a growing portfolio of confidential computing-enabled virtual machines from major cloud providers; gives customers the assurance that they need to move sensitive workloads into the cloud. Using AMD EPYC processors and the AMD Infinity Guard security feature set, AMD continues to be the leading technology partner of choice for confidential computing including:

AWS supports AMD EPYC-powered confidential computing with SEV-SNP in EC2 instances M6a, C6a, and R6a.
Google Cloud supports Confidential Computing with AMD EPYC processors in several ways. This includes Secret Spaces for privacy-focused use cases like general data analysis and machine learning model training; General availability of Confidential VM and Confidential GKE as an IAAS service as well as Confidential Data Streams and Confidential Streams-based Analytics solutions.
Microsoft Azure uses AMD EPYC processors to support a variety of confidential computing services, including secret virtual machines, secret Azure Container instances, secret VM node pools for Azure Kubernetes Services, secret VMs for SQL on Azure VMs, secret VM cluster nodes for both Azure Databricks and Azure Data Explorer, and secret VMs for Windows 11 Azure Virtual Desktops. These services are designed to provide a hardware-based, reliable execution environment that leverages AMD SEV-SNP, which enhances guest protection, helping to protect operator access against threats outside.
Oracle Computing Infrastructure (OCI) gives customers high assurance of data control as customers move their workloads to the cloud, and provides state-of-the-art security features and The impressive performance of EPYC CPUs is supported by secret virtual machines based on OCI E3 and E4.

Customers improve security in the public cloud
Customers, including AstraZeneca and MonetaGo, are demonstrating strong adoption of AMD SEV technology to encrypt full system memory and individual VM memory to extend their services to customers. Modern data centers require workload optimization, and the AMD EPYC processor portfolio provides an integrated feature set, with state-of-the-art security features, to support a compute infrastructure optimized for workloads that require the highest level of security.

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