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Always Encrypted with secure enclaves in Azure SQL Database preview

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Jakub Szymaszek
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Feb 01, 2021
Moving to the cloud has clear economic benefits: cost savings, productivity gains, scalability, and agility, to name a few. However, many organizations keep sensitive data out of the public cloud due...
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ewittrockuwm
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Jun 15, 2021

I have been working with Secure Enclaves on Azure SQL and have seen dramatic improvements in the speed of encryption versus Always Encrypted without Secure Enclaves.  I am working on tables with hundreds of millions of rows and performance is critical.