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.Azure confidential ledger is now Generally Available!
I am pleased to announce that Azure confidential ledger is now generally available! Azure confidential ledger is an unstructured, trusted data store for important identifiers of sensitive data that require high integrity. Data records stored on Azure confidential ledger remain immutable (i.e. Write Once, Read Many) and can be cryptographically verified. It offers a simple experience with REST APIs that can be easily integrated into the application architecture.
