Advanced Security Features of AMD EPYC™ Processors Enable New Google Cloud Confidential Computing Portfolio
July 14 2020 - 8:00AM
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and Google Cloud today announced the beta
availability of Confidential Virtual Machines (VMs) for Google
Compute Engine powered by 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors, taking
advantage of the processors’ advanced security features.
The first product in the Google Cloud Confidential Computing
portfolio, Confidential VMs, enables customers for the first time
to encrypt data in-use while it is being processed and not just
when at rest and in-transit. Based on the N2D family of VMs for
Google Compute Engine, Confidential VMs provide customers high
performance processing for the most demanding computational tasks
and enable encryption for even the most sensitive data in the cloud
while it is being processed.
“At Google Cloud, we believe the future of cloud computing will
increasingly shift to private, encrypted services where users can
be confident that the confidentiality of their data is always under
their control. To help customers in making that transition, we’ve
created Confidential VMs, the first product in our Google Cloud
Confidential Computing portfolio,” said Vint Cerf, vice president
and chief internet evangelist, Google. “By using advanced security
technology in the AMD EPYC processors, we’ve created a breakthrough
technology that allows customers to encrypt their data in the cloud
while it’s being processed and unlock computing scenarios that had
previously not been possible.”
“As enterprises migrate tasks to the cloud for reasons including
ease of management, scalability, and reduced costs, they often stop
short of moving more sensitive workloads due to security concerns,”
said Dan McNamara, senior vice president and general manager,
Server Business Unit, AMD. “To help provide the confidence that
customers can move their sensitive workloads to the cloud, AMD and
Google worked together on the Google Confidential VMs to take
advantage of an advanced security feature, Secure Encrypted
Virtualization, within AMD EPYC processors. This helps enable a
unified and consistent level of hardware-based security for
applications and workloads in the cloud. As well, AMD and Google
have worked together to help customers both secure their data and
achieve high performance of their workloads.”
The Confidential VMs from Google provide:
- Real time encryption-in-use – Google Cloud
customers can encrypt data-in-use, taking advantage of advanced
security features offered by the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processor
together with Confidential Computing cloud services, bringing a
breakthrough in the level of cloud data protection,
- Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) – an
advanced security feature available on AMD EPYC processors, which
encrypts VM memory using a dedicated per-VM key that is generated
and managed by the embedded security processor,
- “Lift and Shift Confidentiality”
– AMD and Google have simplified the use of
Confidential Computing, making the transition to Confidential VMs
seamless as customers do not need to make any code changes to their
applications to benefit from these VMs,
- High-performance VMs – Confidential VMs offer
similar performance to Google N2D VMs, which are powered by
high-performance 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors.
Driving Innovation with AMD and Google
Confidential Computing can unlock computing scenarios previously
not possible, including:
- Multi-party Computation – Situations in which organizations
want to collaborate with each other on private datasets, while
protecting the confidentiality of the data.
- Data Access and Confidentiality – Confidential VMs can limit
the exposure of the data and who can access it by encrypting the
data even when it is being processed.
Organizations will be able to share confidential data sets and
collaborate on research in the cloud across geographies and
competitors confidently due to the high-performance capabilities
and advanced security features of the AMD EPYC processors coupled
with the innovative Confidential Computing technology offered by
Google.
AMD EPYC Processors, Powering the Modern Security
Focused Cloud
AMD EPYC processors power more than 120 VM types from cloud
providers and hosts around the world that support a variety of
workloads including high-performance, general purpose, memory bound
and more.
As well, AMD is committed to supporting the advancement for
security across cloud computing as it recently joined the
Confidential Computing Consortium.
Confidential VMs are available to all GCP customers in the
following GCP regions - asia-southeast1, europe-west1,
europe-west4, us-central1 and are available for Google Compute
Engine in Beta.
Supporting Resources
- Read more about Confidential VMs at the Google Cloud blog
here
- Learn more about AMD EPYC processors here
- Learn more about AMD EPYC for the cloud here
- For workload solutions by AMD for the confidential VMs, visit
here
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AMD Communications
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AMD Investor Relations
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