Microsoft has quietly moved one of the most sensitive elements of cloud security — the Hardware Security Module — from dedicated cluster appliances into the silicon and chassis of individual Azure servers, embedding a custom Azure Integrated HSM ASIC across new fleet servers as part of a broader...
Microsoft’s cloud team has quietly re-architected the silicon under Azure to treat nearly every element of a server as a discrete security boundary — and it's shipping that architecture at scale across new servers this year and into 2025. What started as a collection of academic and hyperscaler...
Microsoft has expanded a major backend partnership with Marvell: the Marvell LiquidSecurity family of hardware security modules (HSMs will now power Microsoft Azure Cloud HSM in addition to their existing role behind Azure Key Vault and Azure Key Vault Managed HSM. The move extends Marvell’s...
Microsoft has selected Marvell’s LiquidSecurity family of hardware security modules (HSMs) to power Azure Cloud HSM, extending an existing Marvell–Azure relationship and bringing PCIe‑attached, FIPS 140‑3 Level 3‑validated HSM technology into Microsoft’s single‑tenant cloud HSM clusters for...
Microsoft has selected Marvell’s LiquidSecurity family of hardware security modules (HSMs) to power its Azure Cloud HSM offering — a move that consolidates Marvell’s role across Azure’s key management portfolio and brings FIPS 140‑3 Level 3‑certified, high‑density PCIe HSMs into Microsoft’s...
Microsoft continues to redefine the frontier of cloud security with the introduction of Azure Integrated HSM (Hardware Security Module). This state-of-the-art cryptographic tool aims to tackle some of the most pressing challenges in the cloud infrastructure world, including security, latency...