Deploy SGX version of gardener-server on AWS

[kss-espeo]

Investigate how to hire an AWS instance that supports SGX. It needs to have a SGX-ready processor which is any modern Intel processor as well as SGX enabled in BIOS.

After we have an AWS instance, deploy a gardener stack on it.

This needs to be done as a prerequisite of SGX-powered Random Number Generator demo : #39
This task requires #22 in master to be finished.

[imacoindev]

Sent a request to AWS for info about the possibility to have access to EC2 instance's BIOS and operate IntelSGX in general.

This could be problematic though - someone has already tried this ayeks/SGX-hardware#37

[imacoindev]

Not possible on to have IngelSGX machine on AWS. Will try Azure next.

[kss-espeo]

Azure sounds like Windows. Definitely worth a try, but please make sure to specify that we need a Linux machine (because we have a soution for Docker+Linux, we don't have one for Docker+Windows) @imacoindev

[imacoindev]

Azure sounds like Windows. Definitely worth a try, but please make sure to specify that we need a Linux machine (because we have a soution for Docker+Linux, we don't have one for Docker+Windows) @imacoindev

Yes, absolutely, I'll specify that :)

[kss-espeo]

@imacoindev any luck with that?

[moehajj]

Were you ever able to deploy your Linux application on AWS or Microsoft Azure enabled SGX machines?

[kss-espeo]

@moehajj we haven't really tried. We only were able to confirm that AWS does not offer SGX machines.

This stream of work was quite stale for some time already and it will probably remain that way for the foreseeable future ;)