Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now support AMD SEV-SNP

Amazon EC2 SEV-SNP on Dedicated Hosts

Amazon EC2 now supports AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) on Dedicated Hosts, allowing customers to run confidential computing workloads on dedicated physical servers.

• Feature: SEV-SNP on Dedicated Hosts for confidential computing workloads.
• Benefits: Control over instance placement, host affinity, and up-to-date security firmware.
• Availability: Available in all AWS commercial Regions with AMD instances.

What to do

• Allocate a Dedicated Host with SEV-SNP enabled.
• Launch SEV-SNP instances on the Dedicated Host.
• Ensure your confidential computing environment is up to date with the latest security firmware.

Source: AWS release notes

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