Microsoft introduces preview of Azure Managed Confidential Consortium Framework
Today we are pleased to announce the preview of Azure Managed Confidential Consortium Framework, a hosted version of the Confidential Consortium Framework (CCF) which leverages the isolation and attestation capabilities of Trusted Execution Environments provided by Azure confidential computing. The framework design decouples node provisioning and operation from network and application governance, making it possible for the solution provider to maintain the set of nodes executing the transactions, without having any access to their contents.Introducing EdgelessDB: A Database Designed for Confidential Computing
Edgeless Systems is on a mission to build easy-to-use open-source tools that make confidential computing accessible to everyone. This article introduces EdgelessDB and shows how it can easily be run on Intel SGX-enabled confidential computing VMs in Azure.Announcing Azure confidential VMs with NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs in Preview
Today, we are excited to announce the gated preview of Azure confidential VMs with NVIDIA H100 Tensor core GPUs. These VMs are ideal for training, fine-tuning and serving popular open-source models, such as Stable Diffusion and its larger variants (SDXL, SSD…) and language models (Zephyr, Falcon, GPT2, MPT, Llama2. Wizard, Xwin).
Confidential Data Clean Rooms – The evolution of sensitive data collaboration
Secure data collaboration between multiple parties has the potential to revolutionize societies, businesses and industries for the better. Collaborating on sensitive data assets facilitates innovation to unlock new value for organizations.Private Preview: Introducing DCesv5 and ECesv5-series Confidential VMs with Intel TDX
Featuring 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, these VMs are backed by an all-new hardware-based Trusted Execution Environment called Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (TDX). Organizations can use these VMs to seamlessly bring confidential workloads to the cloud without any code changes to their applications.Aligning with Kata Confidential Containers to achieve zero trust operator deployments with AKS
Confidential containers on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) leveraging Kata confidential containers open-source project are coming soon to Azure. If you would like to be part of the preview, please express your interest here https://aka.ms/cocoakspreview
