General availability: Confidential VM option for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

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Published

Oct 12, 2022

Status

Launched

Timeline

  • October 2022
    General Availability

Product

SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

Tag

Features
Pricing & Offerings
Services
Microsoft Ignite
Security

Category

Compute
Databases

Description

With the confidential VM option for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines, you can now run your SQL Server workloads on the latest AMD-backed confidential virtual machines. This ensures that both the data in use (the data processed inside the memory of the SQL Server) as well as the data at rest stored on your VM’s drives, are inaccessible to unauthorized users from the outside of the VM. This can be done without the need to change the code of your SQL Server applications or your database schemas, including stored procedures.

Read the documentation for more information.