Cold Start Attestation Latency in Serverless Confidential Inference
Six sequential layers, not one bottleneck, determine confidential inference cold start cost.
Kian Vance
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6 stories in Confidential AI Inference at Scale.
Six sequential layers, not one bottleneck, determine confidential inference cold start cost.
SGX's memory ceiling makes confidential VMs the safer choice for large models.
TEEs offer the only production-speed path to private multi-party inference.
Hardware enclaves protect model weights where policy and access controls cannot.
TEEs encrypt prompts inside enclaves, closing the gap TLS leaves behind.
Five trust boundaries structure risk in confidential LLM inference deployments.