Fail to validate enclave in Amazon Linux 2023

Question

Follow the guide https://docs.aws.amazon.com/enclaves/latest/user/nitro-enclave-cli-install.html and https://docs.aws.amazon.com/enclaves/latest/user/getting-started.html#run to run hello enclave, it fails to validate enclave in Step 4: Validate the enclave in Amazon Linux 2023.

nitro-cli describe-enclaves return the empty value.

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[ec2-user@ip~]$ uname -r
6.1.66-91.160.amzn2023.x86_64

[ec2-user@ip~]$ nitro-cli run-enclave --cpu-count 2 --memory 512 --enclave-cid 16 --eif-path hello.eif --debug-mode
Start allocating memory...
Started enclave with enclave-cid: 16, memory: 512 MiB, cpu-ids: [1, 9]
{
  "EnclaveName": "hello",
  "EnclaveID": "i-0ca76fe14fa141a96-enc18cd347673d446c",
  "ProcessID": 132479,
  "EnclaveCID": 16,
  "NumberOfCPUs": 2,
  "CPUIDs": [
    1,
    9
  ],
  "MemoryMiB": 512
}

[ec2-user@ip~]$ nitro-cli describe-enclaves
[]

Answer

Hi,

Did you check that your setup (instance type, etc.) matches all requirements described at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/enclaves/latest/user/nitro-enclave.html#nitro-enclave-reqs ?

Best,

Didier

Fail to validate enclave in Amazon Linux 2023

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