Hello Azure Community,
We’ve seen a steady evolution in Azure Site Recovery (ASR) when it comes to secure VM deployments — and now there’s another step forward: ASR support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs running Linux is now generally available.
If you work with high-compliance or security-sensitive workloads, you’ve probably already encountered Trusted Launch, which adds Secure Boot and virtual TPM (vTPM) to your Azure Generation 2 VMs. Until now, this kind of protection with ASR was only available for Windows-based VMs. That gap has been closed.
So what does this mean?
You can now:
- Run secure Linux workloads on Trusted Launch VMs
- Protect them using Azure Site Recovery, with native failover and disaster recovery capabilities
- Rely on full support from Microsoft for these VMs in both compliance-sensitive environments and day-to-day production systems
What I like about this update is that it’s not just a checkbox feature. It reflects Microsoft’s commitment to cloud parity between Windows and Linux when it comes to infrastructure resilience and platform security.
In short: whether your VM is running Ubuntu, RHEL, or any other supported Linux distro, you now get both trusted boot protections and native disaster recovery in one package.
No workarounds. No unsupported configurations. Just a secure, resilient foundation — now across both major OS families.
Let me know if you’ve already started rolling out Trusted Launch for Linux — curious to see how it’s working in the wild.
See you soon,
Eduardo