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Confidential Temp Disk Encryption for Confidential VMs in Public Preview

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KartikPrabhu
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Nov 15, 2023
We are announcing the public preview of confidential temp disk encryption for confidential VMs. Until recently, confidential encryption has only been available for OS disks. It binds the disk ...
Updated Aug 29, 2024
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rossdakin
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Dec 29, 2024

In which regions is this preview available? I see the following error for US East:

Creation of VMs and Virtual Machine Scale Sets with NonPersistedTPM disk encryption type is not supported in this region.

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alfernandez
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Jan 27, 2025

Hello Ross,

This came in during the US holiday period and was missed.  Apologies for that.

The NonPersistedTPM SecruityType is for stateless VMs and these do not support Confidential Disk Encryption which is required for Temp Disk encryption.  Try this SecurityType:  "DiskWithVMGuestState"

 

Thanks,

Alec