Please tell me which is the right way of doing disk encryption in azure windows vm.

Azurelearner 1 Reputation point
2022-02-18T03:42:48.41+00:00

Could you please tell me is it a right way of doing disk encryption

From the vm -> Under disks section go to the disks -> open the disk -> Under settings, Encryption -> changing the encryption type and saving it. Is it a right way of doing disk encryption in azure windows vm?

Please tell me which is the right way of doing disk encryption in azure windows vm.

Also please tell me when we encrypt a disk while creating the vm, the temporary disk also get encrypted or do we need to encrypt the os disk, data disk and temporary disk separately.

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An Azure service for virtual machines (VMs) that helps address organizational security and compliance requirements by encrypting the VM boot and data disks with keys and policies that are controlled in Azure Key Vault.
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  1. Sumarigo-MSFT 46,126 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2022-02-18T04:50:45.177+00:00

    @Azurelearner Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Forum, Thank you for posting your query here!

    Azure Disk Encryption for Windows virtual machines (VMs) uses the BitLocker feature of Windows to provide full disk encryption of the OS disk and data disk. Additionally, it provides encryption of the temporary disk when the VolumeType parameter is All.

    Create and encrypt a Windows virtual machine with the Azure portal

    Azure Disk Encryption for Windows VMs

    Enable encryption on an existing or running Windows VM Powershell or CLI

    Please let us know if you have any further queries. I’m happy to assist you further.

    Additional information: Please refer to this video for deep drive on Azure Disk Encryption

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