At Google cloud’s virtual cloud next 2020 event, Google has introduced the latest cloud security program: confidential virtual machines (VMs). The idea is quite simple. Everyone has the habit to put more and more of our work and data on the cloud, we need data not only just to be encrypted at-rest and in-transit but as well as to be encrypted in memory while being processed. This brought-forth results in the public cloud market may be profound.
As every people imagine encrypting data in and out of memory takes a lot of CPU power. Without the required power for processing, encrypting, and decrypting data in and out of memory would be relatably slow. To overcome such circumstances, Confidential VMs rely on second-generation AMD EPYC processors.
The 2nd Gen AMD EPYC is a new breed of server processor which consist of higher standards for data centres. This processor can yield a very high performance to run enterprise applications, software-defined infrastructure, high-performance computing, virtualized and cloud computing environments, and even in data analytic application.
It may be Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud platform in infrastructure as a service, or IBM, Dell Technologies, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, and VMware in multi-cloud hybrid deployments, there are multiple variables for each enterprise
A few key trends are emerging for cloud computing in 2020 that have shifted from the past three years. At a high level
- In this situation of
COVID-19 pandemic and remote work and video conferencing are accelerating moves
to the cloud. In a day-to-day situation, all the enterprises are increasingly
seeing the cloud as a digital transformation engine as well as a technology
that improves business continuity. Under such a circumstance of quarantine,
work was forced to go remote due to stay-at-home orders tasks that were largely
done on cloud infrastructure. The collaboration of these tools such as
Microsoft teams and google meet became cogs in the companies’ broader cloud
ecosystem.
- The main theme is all about data acquisition. The more corporate data that resides in a cloud the more sticky the customer is to the vendor. It’s no secret that cloud computing vendors are pitching enterprises on using right from their platforms to house data for everything from analytics to all their personalized experiences.
But finally, it came to a conclusion that, provided as the extra encryption and decryption steps do incur with a less performance penalty. Google added with the point that, it worked with AMD and developed new open-source drivers to confirm that the performance of confidential VMs are relatively closer to non-confidential VMs.
So Google itself has disclosed so far, that both startup times and throughout performance does not bring more changes virtually among the regular VMs and Confidential VMs
