“Confidential computing is one of the most important and relevant new paradigms that you folks will hear in the near future,” said Intel’s Anil Rao.

The initiative taps into Intel’s Software Guard Extension platform to support confidential computing data protection for Kubernetes workloads.

The Linux Foundation’s Confidential Computing Consortium is a who’s who of cloud providers, chipmakers, telecoms, and other tech giants.

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The cloud giant wants the rest of the industry to get behind its open source confidential computing framework. And it launched a $15K challenge to accelerate this technology.

Microsoft is using its Coco Framework technology to encrypt data in use for Azure SQL Database.