Intel Project Amber introduced

The increasing prevalence of cloud infrastructures has accelerated especially with the necessity of working remotely during the pandemic period. It has also become harder for companies to protect their valuable data. Intel announced the Project Amber solution for this problem.

What is Project Amber?

In a confidential computing environment, the foundation of trust is established through a process called verification or attestation. Validating this reliability is a critical requirement for customers to protect their data and intellectual property while moving more sensitive workloads to the cloud.

The Intel Project Amber solution provides businesses with remote reliability verification of a computing asset in cloud, edge, and on-premises environments. It also operates independently of the infrastructure provider hosting confidential computing workloads.

Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX) on Intel Xeon Scalable platform; It is one of the key technologies powering confidential computing today, enabling beneficial cloud use cases for businesses that regularly process sensitive data.

This service, designed to be independent of the cloud; It will support private computing workloads in the public cloud, private/hybrid cloud and at the edge. Involving a third party to provide proof helps offer users independence and impartiality to provide assurance of confidential computing.

Project Amber is cited as the first step in efforts to create a new multicloud, multi-trusted execution environment service for third-party attestation to further the commitment to confidential computing .

Project Amber in its first release; It aims to support private computing workloads deployed as non-virtual drives (bare metal containers), virtual machines (VMs), and drives running in virtual machines using Intel TEEs.

Intel is also working with independent software vendors (ISVs) to enable trust services such as Project Amber. New software tools, such as APIs that enable ISVs to enable Project Amber to augment software and services, will complement Intel’s platforms and technologies and add more value to customers and partners.

Intel plans to launch a customer pilot of Project Amber in the second half of 2022, followed by general availability in the first half of 2023.