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).Announcing: Microsoft moves $25 Billion in credit card transactions to Azure confidential computing
Microsoft is proud to showcase that customers in the financial sector can rely on public Azure to add confidentiality to provide secure and compliant payment solutions that meet or exceed industry standards. Microsoft is committed to hosting 100% of our payment services on Azure, just as we would expect our customers to do. Microsoft’s Commerce Financial Services (CFS) has completed a critical milestone by deploying a level 1 Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) compliant credit card processing and vaulting solution, moving $25 Billion in annual credit card transactions to the public Azure cloud.
Protecting Azure customers with the power of Azure confidential ledger
The Azure confidential ledger Basic SKU preview will allow select customers using other Azure products to uplevel integrity protection by storing periodic data, blobs, and application signatures in Azure confidential ledger as a point-in-time source of truth. The Basic SKU will have limited transactions per second compared to the existing Standard SKU. It is ideal for cases where periodic hash digests are sent to the Azure confidential ledger for advanced integrity protection of your main data source. The Basic SKU will be free of charge for the duration of the gated preview.Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Managed Confidential Consortium Framework
Customers and partners have expressed that they require: * customizable governance across multiple parties that works even when some members depart, * transparency and auditability to see what data is being read and acted on, confidentiality to have end-to-end technical protection when dealing with sensitive data, * resiliency in scalable, performant infrastructure for enterprise capabilities, and * developer friendly experience that has ease-of-use and does not require specialized development teams. To provide a solution that addresses these needs, we are announcing the public preview of Azure Managed Confidential Consortium Framework – a collaboration platform for decentralized trust and governance application development.
