Microsoft and AMD bet big on confidential Cloud computing By IANS Share San Francisco - Microsoft has announced to extend its confidential computing options available to Azure Cloud customers in partnership with chip-maker AMD. The company said it will be the first major cloud provider to offer confidential virtual machines on the new AMD ‘EPYC 7003' series processors. With the third-gen AMD EPYC CPU-backed confidential computing virtual machines (VMs), Azure confidential computing now enables customers to encrypt entire VMs confidentially, enable confidentiality without recompiling code, and benefit from a host of Azure-specific enhancements. "Today you can deliver confidential workloads on Azure with the broadest choice of hardware as well as resources spanning virtual machines, containers, SQL, and beyond," the company said in a statement on Monday.