General Availability: Upgrade your existing Azure Gen2 VMs to Trusted Launch

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Published

Oct 4, 2023

Status

Launched

Timeline

  • October 2023
    General Availability

Product

Virtual Machines

Tag

Compliance
Features
Services
Security

Category

Compute

Description

Support for upgrade of existing Azure Generation 2 VMs to Trusted Launch is now generally available. You can seamlessly enable Trusted Launch and improve the security of your existing Azure Generation 2 VMs.

Trusted Launch VMs provide foundational compute security to Azure Generation 2 VMs by enabling Secure Boot and vTPM capabilities. Trusted Launch capabilities protects OS against rootkits, boot kits and enables attestation by measuring the boot chain of VM.

 

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