# Azure Confidential Computing Intel Sgx

> Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Optimly AI Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-10-04.

- **Business Profile:** https://optimly.ai/brand/azure-confidential-computing-intel-sgx
- **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/azure-confidential-computing-intel-sgx.json
- **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/azure-confidential-computing-intel-sgx/llms.txt
- **Official website:** https://microsoft.com
- **Slug:** azure-confidential-computing-intel-sgx
- **Categories:** cloud-infrastructure, cybersecurity, developer-tools

## Overview

- **Tagline:** It provides application-level isolation (enclaves) at the CPU level, ensuring not even the cloud platform provider can access the encrypted memory.
Source: Brand's website (https://microsoft.com) · 2026-10-04

- **Description:** Azure Confidential Computing with Intel SGX is a specialized cloud service that provides hardware-based isolation for data in use. By leveraging Intel Software Guard Extensions, it allows developers to create private enclaves in memory that are inaccessible even to the cloud provider or host OS.
Source: Brand's website (https://microsoft.com) · 2026-10-04

## Offerings

- **Core capabilities:**
  - Azure DC-series Virtual Machines
  - Open Enclave SDK
  - Azure Attestation.
Source: Brand's website (https://microsoft.com) · 2026-10-04

- **Pricing:** Usage-based
Source: Brand's website (https://microsoft.com) · 2026-10-04

## Audience

- **Target industry:** Financial Services, Healthcare, Government, Blockchain, Multi-party computation.
Source: Brand's website (https://microsoft.com) · 2026-10-04

## Landscape

- **Competitors:**
  - AWS Nitro Enclaves
  - AMD SEV-SNP (Confidential VMs)
  - Google Cloud Confidential Computing
Source: Brand's website (https://microsoft.com) · 2026-10-04

Page last updated 2026-10-17.