Rafay and Fortanix Launch Confidential AI Service for Neoclouds

Rafay Systems and Fortanix have launched a joint offering that lets neoclouds, sovereign AI clouds and enterprises sell confidential AI as a service, the companies said in a press release. Rafay's platform now orchestrates workloads that run on CNCF Confidential Containers with Fortanix Confidential AI, extending an existing integration for confidential virtual machines.

The workloads run inside hardware-based trusted execution environments. Fortanix checks the environment and the workload through cryptographic attestation before it releases encryption keys, so data and model weights stay encrypted even while they are being processed. End users can launch the workloads from Rafay's developer portal without filing a support ticket.

The companies are aiming at regulated sectors such as finance, healthcare and the public sector, where sensitive data and proprietary models often run on GPUs operated by a third party.