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Public preview: Intel TDX based confidential VMs now available in the Azure portal, Azure CLI and ARM templates
The DCesv5 and ECesv5-series confidential virtual machines (VMs) are now available in the Azure portal and via the CLI and ARM templates. These VMs enable organizations to bring confidential workloads to the cloud without code changes to applications.
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.
Migration of Azure Virtual Network injected Azure Data Explorer cluster to Private Endpoints
If you are using VNet injection to secure your Azure Data Explorer (ADX) cluster, you may face some challenges such as complexity, scalability, and public IP dependency. We recommend that you switch to Azure Private Endpoints, which allow you to connect to your cluster privately within your VNet. We have released a preview feature that lets you migrate your VNet injected ADX cluster to Private Endpoints easily and quickly.
November 2023
Public Preview: Encryption using Customer Managed Keys for Backup Vaults
Encryption of data in Backup vaults using Customer Managed Keys is now in Public Preview.
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.
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.
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.
Public Preview: Announcing the preview of Azure Managed Confidential Consortium Framework
Deploy and build decentralized governance applications with granular confidentiality amongst members.
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.
Public preview: Confidential containers on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
AKS now lets you run individual pods in their own trusted execution environment (TEE)
Public preview: Confidential temp disk encryption for confidential VMs
Confidential temp disk encryption is now available for all confidential VMs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Customer-Managed Keys (preview) integration with Azure Chaos Studio
Customer-Managed Keys (preview) integration with Azure Chaos Studio
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