Confidential Computing - Security Design of the AWS Nitro System

Confidential Computing - Security Design of the AWS Nitro System

Thursday, May 30, 2024 3:30 PM to 4:00 PM · 30 min. (Europe/Amsterdam)

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The AWS Nitro System is the underlying platform for all modern Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. In this session, learn about the inner workings of the Nitro System and discover how it is used to help secure your most sensitive workloads. Explore the unique design of the Nitro System’s purpose-built hardware and software components and how they operate together. Dive into specific elements of the Nitro System design, including eliminating the possibility of operator access and providing a hardware root of trust and cryptographic system integrity protections. Learn important aspects of the Amazon EC2 tenant isolation model that provide strong mitigation against potential side-channel issues.

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Theater session

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Software / Infrastructure / Platform as a Service security
Amazon Web Services (AWS)05.C073Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster. AWS is architected to be the most flexible and secure cloud computing environment available today. Our core infrastructure is built to satisfy the security requirements for the military, global banks, and other high-sensitivity organizations. This is backed by a deep set of cloud security tools, with over 300 security, compliance, and governance services and features, as well as support for 143 security standards and compliance certifications.

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