Confidential VM release notes

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February 26, 2024

Live migration is now available on new Confidential VM instances that meet the following configuration criteria:

  • An N2D machine type with AMD EPYC Milan CPU platform

  • AMD SEV Confidential Computing technology

  • An operating system image that supports live migration

June 16, 2022

Support for 3rd generation AMD EPYC Milan processors on general purpose N2D machine types is now generally available, featuring:

Support for compute-optimized C2D machine types is now generally available, featuring:

  • 3rd generation AMD EPYC Milan processors
  • AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) which can encrypt the memory of the VM to protect data in-use
  • Large VM sizes
  • Optimized for high-performance computing (HPC)

May 20, 2022

Support for 3rd generation AMD EPYC Milan processors on general purpose N2D machine types is now available in Preview, featuring:

Support for compute-optimized C2D machine types is now available in Preview, featuring:

  • 3rd generation AMD EPYC Milan processors
  • AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) which can encrypt the memory of the VM to protect data in-use
  • Large VM sizes
  • Optimized for high-performance computing (HPC)

December 01, 2020

Confidential VM is now generally available on general purpose N2D machine types, which feature:

July 14, 2020

Confidential VM is now available in Beta on general purpose N2D machine types, which feature: