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September 27, 2024
Support for Intel TDX on c3-standard-* machine types is now released to General Availability.
September 20, 2024
Support for AMD SEV on C3D machine types is now released to General Availability.
August 05, 2024
AMD has notified Google about 3 new (2 medium risk, 1 high risk) firmware vulnerabilities affecting SEV-SNP in AMD EPYC 3rd generation (Milan) and 4th generation (Genoa) CPUs (CVE-2023-31355, CVE-2024-21978, and CVE-2024-21980).
For more information, see the GCP-2024-046 security bulletin.
June 18, 2024
Support for AMD SEV-SNP on Confidential VM instances is now generally available. AMD SEV-SNP is supported on N2D machine types with AMD EPYC Milan CPU platforms.
March 28, 2024
Support for Intel TDX on general purpose C3 standard machine types is now available in Preview .
February 26, 2024
Live migration is now generally 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
January 19, 2024
Support for AMD SEV-SNP on general purpose N2D machine types is now available in Preview .
June 16, 2022
Support for 3rd generation AMD EPYC Milan processors on general purpose N2D machine types is now generally available, featuring:
- AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) which can encrypt the memory of the VM to protect data in-use
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:
- AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) which can encrypt the memory of the VM to protect data in-use
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:
- 2nd generation AMD EPYC Rome processors
- AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) which can encrypt the memory of the VM to protect data in-use
July 14, 2020
Confidential VM is now available in Beta on general purpose N2D machine types, which feature:
- 2nd generation AMD EPYC Rome processors
- AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) which can encrypt the memory of the VM to protect data in-use