Back to feed
GCP·Confidential VM·
AI Insights

Issue: Starting August 2026, Confidential VM instances using AMD SEV-SNP might have longer boot times and performance changes...

Starting August 2026, Confidential VM instances using AMD SEV-SNP might have longer boot times and performance changes due to a guest kernel migration and security updates. This issue is expected to be resolved by November 2026. Confidential VM instances using AMD SEV or Intel TDX aren't affected.

Read original announcement

More from Confidential VM

Security: A vulnerability affecting Intel TDX firmware was discovered and is being addressed.Aug 11, 2026The accelerator-optimized g4-standard-48 machine type for securely running AI and ML workloads is generally...Aug 7, 2026Security: Support for Intel TDX on c4-standard-* machine types is available in Preview.Jul 31, 2026Confidential VM instances with AMD SEV on C3D and C4D machine types now support configurations with more than 255 vCPUs.Jul 29, 2026