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/cocoakspreviewLatest innovations in Azure confidential computing
Today at Inspire 2022, we announce two major milestones in the Azure confidential computing portfolio: the general availability of Azure confidential ledger and general availability of the DCasv5 and ECasv5-series confidential VMs featuring the third generation AMD EPYC™ processors with Secure Encrypted Virtualization Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP).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.Microsoft introduces preview of confidential containers on Azure Container Instances (ACI)
Microsoft announces a limited preview of confidential containers on Azure Container Instances (ACI) enabling customers to easily lift-and-shift Linux containers on Azure. Confidential containers on ACI are the first in the market serverless offering that helps running Linux containers in a hardware-based trusted execution environment with AMD SEV-SNP technology.
Announcing general availability of guest attestation for confidential VMs
We are announcing general availability of guest attestation for confidential virtual machines. Use this feature ensure your confidential VMs are running in a trusted execution environment (TEE) and prevent execution of their sensitive workloads if they are not.Confidential VM node pool with AMD SEV-SNP protection available on AKS in public preview
AKS node pools now support the generally available confidential VM sizes (DCav5/ECav5). Confidential VMs with AMD SEV-SNP support bring a new set of security features to protect date-in-use with full VM memory encryption. This enables confidential VM node pools to target the migration of highly sensitive container workloads to AKS without any code refactoring while benefiting from the full AKS feature support.
