AWS enhanced Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts by supporting AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP). This hardware-based security feature allows customers to deploy confidential computing workloads on physical hosts dedicated exclusively to them, ensuring strong workload isolation and encryption.
With SEV-SNP enabled during Dedicated Host allocation, customers gain control over instance placement and host affinity, maintaining confidentiality and compliance for sensitive applications. This feature is offered across all AWS commercial Regions supporting AMD instances.
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Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now support AMD SEV-SNP ↗Source published 2026-07-02. This report was prepared with AI assistance from the linked primary-source material. Claims and limitations should be checked against the original announcement or research.