{"id":19674,"date":"2020-07-14T20:58:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T20:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/googles-confidential-vms-may-change-the-public-cloud-market.html"},"modified":"2020-07-14T20:58:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T20:58:18","slug":"googles-confidential-vms-may-change-the-public-cloud-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/googles-confidential-vms-may-change-the-public-cloud-market.html","title":{"rendered":"Google’s Confidential VMs may change the public cloud market"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At Google Cloud<\/a>‘s virtual Cloud Next ’20 event<\/a>, Google announced its newest cloud security program: Confidential VMs<\/a>\u00a0(virtual machines). The idea is simple: As we put more and more of our work and data on the cloud, we need data not just to be encrypted at-rest and in-transit but to be encrypted in memory while being processed. The results in the public cloud market may be profound.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Encrypting data in and out of memory, as you might imagine, takes a lot of CPU power. Without sufficient processing power, encrypting and decrypting data in and out of memory would be prohibitively slow. To pull this off, Confidential VMs rely on second-generation AMD EPYC processors<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

These chips were designed to be fast enough to loosen Intel’s heretofore iron grip on data center processors. AMD has pulled this off. In addition to being the foundation of Google’s secure Confidential VMs,\u00a0Oracle’s new Cloud E3 platform<\/a> and AWS’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) C5a instances<\/a>\u00a0are both on top of the second-generation AMD EPYC CPUs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Google’s Confidential VMs use the AMD EPYC secure encrypted virtualization (SEV)<\/a> to keep VM memory encryption while still delivering good performance. It locks down the memory with a dedicated per-VM instance key. This key is generated and managed by the EPYC processor. These keys, in turn, are generated by the AMD Secure Processor during VM creation and reside solely within it. This means neither Google nor any other VMs running on the host can read your data.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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