Microsoft’s Bold Move to Confidential Computing for Critical Licensing Services – and Why It Matters for Every Vendor Handling Sensitive Data

Microsoft just made a landmark move by migrating its Commercial Licensing transaction processing system—a critical financial engine that handles more than $40 billion annually—to Confidential Computing. This transition wasn’t just about adding another layer of security; it marked a fundamental shift in how sensitive data is protected, even while it’s being processed in the cloud.

In Microsoft's words: "Even platform administrators or attackers with elevated access cannot access data while it's in memory."

That’s the power of Confidential Computing: runtime encryption. And Microsoft didn’t do this as an experiment—it’s now running live at massive global scale.

Could your organization do this for it’s sensitive processing systems ?

Yes! Because with platforms like Anjuna, this same transformation is made frictionless and fast for any organization. While organizations can spin up Confidential VM’s, true isolation requires much more effort to mitigate the insider risk of the VM Admin, and to connect the requisite systems together under a unified trust framework leverage the power of Confidential Computing’s attestation mechanisms. Beyond this, seamless integration into kubernetes, or operating a system in a hybrid or multi-cloud implementation can also make for arduous projects with complexity that can be daunting.

Anjuna makes Confidential Computing simple—no need to rewrite applications, retrain teams, or rearchitect deployments. Whether you're in payments, healthcare, fintech, government, or SaaS, Anjuna can drop your existing containerized workloads directly into a secure enclave in the cloud —Azure, AWS, or GCP, and in private datacenters.

Here’s what makes Anjuna powerful:

• No code changes: Run your applications as-is in Confidential VMs or enclaves. Take a container, or complex kubernetes app, and with 1 command line, or 1 spec change, you can be up and running.
  
• Multi-cloud, any container: Full portability across environments and infrastructure - enabling easy migration, choice, and avoiding any native lock-in or design requirements.
  
• Maximum isolation: Keep your data protected from insiders, other tenants, and cloud administrators. Confidential containers take isolation on confidential computing enabled instances to the next level - beyond the VM where Admins still present insider threat concerns.
  
• Compliance-ready: Easily align with regulatory needs for processing sensitive and classified data with proof of isolation using strong trust mechanisms built into the CPU hardware itself, and designs explicitly for the highest possible levels of confidentiality.

Microsoft proved that even the most sensitive, high-value systems can run securely in the public cloud. With Anjuna, you can too—without the heavy lift.

Confidential Computing isn’t the future—it’s the new standard for trustworthy computing.

Ready to make the move? Let Anjuna unlock secure data processing for your critical workloads—simply, powerfully, and without compromise. Get in touch or request a trial today