Advanced Security Features of AMD EPYC™ Processors Enable New Google Cloud Confidential Computing Portfolio
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Advanced Security Features of AMD EPYC™ Processors Enable New Google Cloud Confidential Computing Portfolio

SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 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:

Driving Innovation with AMD and Google

Confidential Computing can unlock computing scenarios previously not possible, including:

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.

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  Laura Graves
AMD Investor Relations
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laura.graves@amd.com

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