General availability: Trusted launch support for virtual machines using Ephemeral OS disks

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Published

Jun 7, 2022

Status

Launched

Timeline

  • June 2022
    General Availability

Product

Managed Disks
Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Virtual Machines

Tag

Features

Category

Compute

Description

Trusted launch is a seamless way to improve the security of generation 2 VMs. It protects against advanced and persistent attack techniques by combining technologies that can be independently enabled like secure boot and virtualized version of trusted platform module (vTPM).

Trusted launch support for VMs using Ephemeral OS disks is availabe in all Azure public regions. With this, customers using Ephemeral OS disk for VMs will benefit from the additional security offered by trusted launch.