Amazon EC2 is announcing support for AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) on Dedicated Hosts, enabling customers to run their confidential computing workloads on physical servers fully dedicated to their use.

Customers can allocate a Dedicated Host with SEV-SNP enabled and launch SEV-SNP instances on it. This gives customers the benefits of Dedicated Hosts for confidential computing workloads, including control over instance placement, and host affinity that allows customers to deploy instances to the same physical server over time. The physical host is provisioned with AMD security firmware during allocation, ensuring a customer’s confidential computing environment is up to date.

Dedicated Host SEV-SNP is available in all AWS commercial Regions with AMD instances. To learn more, visit our documentation.