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General availability: Encryption with customer-managed keys in Azure Health Data Services

The ability to encrypt health data in the cloud with customer-managed keys using Azure Health Data Services is generally available.

• Azure Health Data Services
• Security
• Features

Preview: New Basic SKU functionality for Azure confidential ledger

The Azure confidential ledger Basic SKU gated preview will allow select customers using other Azure products to uplevel integrity protection by storing periodic data, blobs, and application signatures in Azure confidential ledger.

• Security
• Microsoft Ignite
• Services
• Management
• Features

Generally available: AMD confidential VM option for Azure Databricks

Users can now select AMD-based confidential VMs for their Azure Databricks cluster driver node and cluster worker nodes.

• Azure Databricks
• Virtual Machines
• Security
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

Public Preview: Announcing the preview of Azure Managed Confidential Consortium Framework

Deploy and build decentralized governance applications with granular confidentiality amongst members.

• Azure confidential ledger
• Open Source
• Security
• Microsoft Ignite
• Services
• SDK and Tools

Preview: Azure confidential VMs with NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs

Azure confidential VMs with NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs is open for preview. Please use the sign-up at aka.ms/accgpusignup for your onboarding request.

• Security
• Microsoft Ignite
• Services

Public preview: Confidential containers on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

AKS now lets you run individual pods in their own trusted execution environment (TEE)

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Open Source
• Security
• Microsoft Ignite
• Services
• Features

Public preview: Confidential temp disk encryption for confidential VMs

Confidential temp disk encryption is now available for all confidential VMs.

• Virtual Machines
• Security
• Microsoft Ignite
• Services
• Features

Public Preview: New Marketplace app for Storage customers and feature enhancements to portal for Azure confidential ledger

Storage customers will now be able to use a marketplace application to connect their immutable blobs with enhanced integrity protection from Azure confidential ledger. Signatures from blobs will be stored and validated, as needed. In addition, the Azure confidential ledger portal experience has been enhanced to allow exploring transactions and retrieving cryptographic proof.

• Security
• Microsoft Ignite
• Services
• Management
• Features

Preview: Disk Integrity Tool for confidential VMs in Azure

The disk integrity tool for confidential VMs is now in preview. This enables you to measure and attest that your OS disk is launched as expected.

• Virtual Machines
• Security
• Microsoft Ignite
• SDK and Tools
• Features

Generally Available: Trusted launch as default for VMs deployed through PowerShell and CLI

Trusted launch is now enabled by default for VMs deployed through PowerShell and CLI, enhancing the foundational security of these VMs.

• Virtual Machines
• Security
• Microsoft Ignite
• Services
• Features

Public Preview: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.3 support for AMD-based confidential VMs

RHEL 9.3 is now available in public preview as the guest OS for all AMD-based confidential VMs.

• Virtual Machines
• Security
• Microsoft Ignite
• Services
• Features
• Operating System

Announcing the public preview of Azure confidential VMs with Intel TDX

Microsoft is excited to announce the public preview of DCesv5 and ECesv5-series confidential VMs. These VMs are powered by 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (TDX). They enable organizations to bring confidential workloads to the cloud without code changes to applications and will be available starting December 1st.

• Security
• Microsoft Ignite
• Regions & Datacenters
• Pricing & Offerings

Azure Virtual Network Manager Security Admin Rule generally available in select regions

Azure Virtual Network Manager's security admin rule configuration is now generally available in select regions, empowering users to enforce security rules across their virtual networks globally.

• Azure Virtual Network Manager
• Security
• Microsoft Ignite
• Services
• Management
• Features

Public Preview: App Service End-to-end (E2E) Encryption for Linux Multi-tenant Resources

Encrypt traffic between multi-tenant App Service front-ends and workers using the new End-to-end (E2E) TLS Encryption (Preview) feature.

• App Service (Linux)
• Security
• Features

General availability: Rate-limit rules for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall

Protect applications from abnormally high levels of traffic with rate-limit rules on Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall running on Application Gateway.

• Application Gateway
• Web Application Firewall
• Security
• Features

Customer-Managed Keys (preview) integration with Azure Chaos Studio

Customer-Managed Keys (preview) integration with Azure Chaos Studio

• Security
• Features

GA: Application routing add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

You can now enable an ingress controller with SSL termination to quickly and securely access your applications in AKS

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Security
• Features

Public preview: Image integrity support in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

You can now ensure that only signed container images are deployed to your AKS clusters.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure Container Registry
• Security
• Features

TLS 1.2 to become the minimum TLS version for Azure Storage

Target availability: Q4 2024

TLS 1.2 to become the minimum TLS version for Azure Storage

• Azure Blob Storage
• Azure Data Lake Storage
• Compliance
• Security