July 23, 2020

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AWS Introduces Nitro Enclaves Isolated EC2 Environments for Confidential Computing

AWS Introduces Nitro Enclaves Isolated EC2 Environments for Confidential Computing

AWS has recently made available Nitro Enclaves, isolated EC2 environments to process confidential data. Based on a lightweight Linux OS, a Nitro Enclave is a hardened, attested and highly constrained virtual machine. By Renato Losio

Author: Renato Losio

Date: 2020-11-09

URL: https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/11/aws-nitro-enclaves/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=global

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