Security News > 2023 > November > Microsoft Azure Confidential VMs Will Roll Out This December

Organizations using Microsoft Azure will have access to confidential virtual machines in Azure on Dec. 1, allowing greater privacy and compliance.

Confidential VMs:. SEE: Windows 10 users can now try out the AI assistant Microsoft Copilot.

Intel points out that confidential computing may be particularly important to organizations in healthcare, finance, retail, government services and industrial or edge deployments.

The new confidential VMs add boot-time attestation and confidential disk encryption with enterprise key management options for platform-managed keys and customer-managed keys, Microsoft said.

New confidential VMs offer options for organizations that want to further separate their duties from their cloud provider, with ephemeral vTPM capability and disk integrity tooling.

Microsoft works with the Confidential Computing Consortium to provide encryption and Windows support for virtual machines.

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https://www.techrepublic.com/article/azure-confidential-vms-public-preview/