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EC2 Dedicated Hosts Add AMD SEV-SNP Support

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Amazon EC2 now supports AMD SEV-SNP on Dedicated Hosts, allowing confidential computing workloads on dedicated physical servers. This provides confidential computing benefits alongside Dedicated Host features like placement control and host affinity. The feature is available in all AWS commercial regions with AMD instances.

  • →Confidential Computing on Dedicated Hosts with AMD SEV-SNP
  • →Automated Security Firmware Updates
  • →Availability of Dedicated Host SEV-SNP
Features (1) ›
  • Confidential Computing on Dedicated Hosts with AMD SEV-SNP

    Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now support AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP), enabling confidential computing workloads on dedicated physical servers. This allows customers to control instance placement and maintain host affinity for their secure environments.

Enhancements (1) ›
  • Automated Security Firmware Updates

    Physical hosts are provisioned with AMD security firmware during allocation, ensuring that confidential computing environments are kept up to date. This simplifies security management for customers using SEV-SNP instances.

Notes (1) ›
  • Availability of Dedicated Host SEV-SNP

    Dedicated Host SEV-SNP is now available in all AWS commercial Regions that support AMD instances. Customers can allocate a Dedicated Host with SEV-SNP enabled and launch compatible instances on it.

Read the original announcement →

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/ec2-amd-sev-snp-dedicated-hosts

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