An enclave application is an application that is designed and developed to run inside the isolated enclave environment. An enclave application typically consists of at least two components:
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An application that runs on the parent instance
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An application that runs inside the enclave
Due to the isolated environment of the enclave, the only channel of communication between applications that are running on the instance and applications that are running in the enclave is the vsock socket.
Topics
Nitro Enclaves Developer AMI
AWS provides a Nitro Enclaves Developer AMI that contains the tools and
components needed to develop enclave applications and to build enclave image files.
It also contains samples applications, such as hello-enclave, vsock_sample and
kmstool, to demonstrate how to use and develop your own enclave applications. For
more information, see AWS Nitro Enclaves Developer AMI
Nitro Enclaves SDK
The Nitro Enclaves SDK is a set of open-source libraries that you can use to develop
your enclave applications. The SDKs also integrate with AWS KMS and provide built-in
support for attestation and cryptographic operations. For more information about the
SDKs and how to use them, see the Nitro Enclaves SDK Github
repository
