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The Belfort FHE Accelerator enables fast, cheap, and energy-efficient computations on encrypted data using Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE).
Overview
The Belfort FHE Accelerator enables fast, cheap, and energy-efficient computations on encrypted data using Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). The algorithms and infrastructure are tailor-made to speed-up the open-source TFHE-rs library. The accelerator is designed for deployment on AWS EC F2 instances, where it offloads expensive FHE calculations. Thus, applications with highly sensitive data are enabled through computation on encrypted data (COED). Example industries that require such applications are health care, financial industries and legal companies.
Notes:
- No hardware device is sold, bundled, or distributed as part of this software listing
- This product extends the functionality of Zama's TFHE-rs and without it, this product has very limited utility. For development, research, prototyping and experimentation, this AMI works out-of-the box. However, note that TFHE-rs requires a license for commercial purposes.
You can find more information for setting up the environment on the following GitHub repository: https://github.com/belfortlabs/hello-fpga
Highlights
- Performance: Achieving 10x to 100x speedups for integer and boolean operations on encrypted data.
- Cost Efficiency: Superior price/performance compared to CPU- and GPU-based instances.
- Ease of Use: Seamlessly integrates with the TFHE-rs library.
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Dimensions summary
This product is offered free of charge and bills by the hour across three FPGA-based instance sizes. You pick the size that fits your workload: f2.6xlarge, f2.12xlarge, or f2.48xlarge. These are not feature tiers. They differ by compute capacity, with each larger size providing more hardware resources for accelerating encrypted computation. The hourly rate applies only while an instance runs, so cost tracks your actual usage time. You can run any size independently and switch based on the scale of your encrypted workloads.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
Each size runs on FPGA-based instances, which are chips that accelerate encrypted computation. The f2.6xlarge, f2.12xlarge, and f2.48xlarge differ by allocated compute capacity. Larger sizes provide more hardware resources. You are billed per hour for the size you choose while it runs.
The hourly software rate applies only while an instance runs. A fully stopped instance accrues no software charges. Underlying AWS resources like storage may still bill separately. Cost tracks the actual running time of each instance size you select.
Each size bills independently by the hour. Running one size does not affect another. You can start any size, stop it, and switch to a different size based on the scale of your encrypted workload. Every running instance accrues its own hourly charge.
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Full refund in case your application doesn't work on FPGA's, but works on CPU's.
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
Updated support for F2 instances.
Additional details
Usage instructions
Belfort's GitHub repository (https://github.com/belfortlabs/hello-fpga ) contains extended information to set up the Belfort FHE Accelerator.
Please follow these steps to set up the Belfort FHE Accelerator:
Step 1. Request On-Demand F instances to increase your vCPU quota Step 2. Launch your AWS F2 Instance Step 3. Prepare execution environment Step 4. Run your FHE Code
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You can contact us at support@belfortlabs.com
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