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Intel® QuickAssist Technology - Envoy TLS Acceleration with Intel® QAT Solution Brief

Last Updated: Jan 31, 2023

Envoy is a popular L7 proxy. When Envoy is used as an edge proxy, it often must terminate lots of Transport Layer Security (TLS) connections. Envoy supports Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT) for accelerating TLS handshakes. This document shows how Intel® QAT provides a significant boost for TLS connections/sec in the Envoy security load balancer.

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