Security News > 2020 > October > AWS Nitro Enclaves: Create isolated environments to protect highly sensitive workloads

AWS Nitro Enclaves helps customers reduce the attack surface for their applications by providing a trusted, highly isolated, and hardened environment for data processing.

With this isolation, the AWS Nitro Enclave owner can start and stop, or assign resources to an Enclave, but even the owner cannot see what is being processed inside of AWS Nitro Enclaves.

The AWS Nitro Enclaves SDK also integrates with AWS Key Management Service, allowing customers to generate data keys and to decrypt them inside the Enclave.

"Customers often tell us that powerful built-in protections like the locked-down security model of the Nitro System are among the primary reasons why they trust AWS with their workloads," said David Brown, Vice President, Amazon EC2, at AWS. "Nitro Enclaves builds on those same security and isolation models that have separated AWS for so many customers, delivering a more efficient method for securely processing highly sensitive data. This means customers can build and innovate faster in a way that still meets the highest bar for security."

AWS Nitro Enclaves is available on the majority of Intel and AMD-based Amazon EC2 instance types built on the AWS Nitro System.

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