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Nitro is good! And showcases a great many of the foundational architectural concepts in PCC. But there is a major difference that is germane to the topic of Ap
by abalone 2y ago
Nitro is good! And showcases a great many of the foundational architectural concepts in PCC.
But there is a major difference that is germane to the topic of Apple’s investment in US server manufacturing: The hardware root of trust. Hardware tampering is the weak point and afaik AWS doesn’t describe any process to certify their supply chain integrity. I think the most they’ve done is commission a review of their architecture document.[1] PCC actually has an auditor sign each server node in the datacenter.
Thank you for mentioning them though. It’s an important advancement in generally available confidential computing infrastructure.
[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/aws-nitro-system-gets-independent-affirmation-of-its-confidential-compute-capabilities/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/aws-nitro-system-gets-i...