# AWS Nitro Enclaves > AWS Nitro Enclaves is a cloud security feature that enables customers to create isolated compute environments to further protect and securely process highly sensitive data. Built on the AWS Nitro System, it provides an isolated, hardened, and highly constrained virtual machine that has no persistent storage, no interactive access, and no external networking. - URL: https://optimly.ai/brand/aws-nitro-enclaves - Slug: aws-nitro-enclaves