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AWS Nitro Enclaves Ecosystem (3) — Anjuna
Background
After my last post on Evervault was published, I didn’t have time to try out other AWS Nitro Enclaves service providers. But luckily, Anjuna, which is also on my list to review, reached out to me and offered a free trial for me to review its Nitro enclaves offering.
So in this blog post, I will talk about my takes.
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What is Anjuna
Anjuna Security is a company offering a software platform that automates the creation of confidential computing environments in the public cloud. Besides AWS Nitro Enclaves, they also support other cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, GCP) based on various hardware chipsets (e.g., Intel SGX, AMD SEV).
Tools as a Service
My initial expectation of Anjuna was that it would be a cloud service integrated with my AWS account through permission grants, a common approach of cloud service providers.
However, Anjuna doesn’t go on this path. Instead, they provide a complete software platform to customers, helping them build and run their applications on AWS Nitro Enclaves.
During the process, no communication is needed between the workloads and Anjuna. With the tools downloaded…