Note: This article is adapted from the official Phala Network post: “dstack: One Confidential Compute Framework Across AWS, Google Cloud, and Phala” — published April 23, 2026. see it here: https://phala.com/posts/dstack-one-confidential-compute-framework-aws-google-cloud-phala If you have ever tried shipping something on confidential compute infrastructure, you know the setup tax is real. Choosing AWS Nitro Enclaves or Google Cloud Confidential VMs is not just a hosting decision. It pulls in a whole chain of choices about how you package your workload, how your application proves its identity, and how it gets access to secrets at runtime. Every platform does this differently, and if you ever need to move between them, you are essentially starting from scratch. That is the specific problem dstack is solving.…