Public Preview: AMD confidential VM option for Azure Data Explorer (ADX)

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Published

May 23, 2023

Status

In preview

Timeline

  • May 2023
    Preview

Product

Azure Data Explorer

Tag

Features
Microsoft Build
Security

Category

Analytics

Description

Azure Data Explorer (ADX) customers can now specify an AMD-based confidential VM SKU for their ADX cluster nodes. Azure AMD-based confidential VMs provide a strong, hardware-enforced boundary that hardens the protection of the guest OS against host operator access and other Azure tenants. These VMs are designed to help ensure that data in use, in memory, is protected from unauthorized users using encryption keys generated by the underlying chipset and inaccessible to Azure operators.  This will help customers analyze more sensitive data on ADX.   

To learn more, read the announcement blog and the documentation.