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Reverse IL5 disk encryption coverage pending DISA feedback
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articles/azure-government/documentation-government-impact-level-5.md

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# Isolation guidelines for Impact Level 5 workloads
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> As new hardware generations become available, some VM types might require reconfiguration (scale up or migration to a new VM SKU) to ensure they remain on properly dedicated hardware. For more information, see **[Virtual machine isolation in Azure](../virtual-machines/isolation.md).**
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#### Disk encryption options
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#### Disk encryption for virtual machines
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There are several types of encryption available for your managed disks supporting virtual machines and virtual machine scale sets:
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You can encrypt the storage that supports these virtual machines in one of two ways to support necessary encryption standards.
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- Azure Disk Encryption
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- Server-side encryption of Azure Disk Storage
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- Encryption at host
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- Confidential disk encryption
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- Use Azure Disk Encryption to encrypt the drives by using dm-crypt (Linux) or BitLocker (Windows):
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- [Enable Azure Disk Encryption for Linux](../virtual-machines/linux/disk-encryption-overview.md)
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- [Enable Azure Disk Encryption for Windows](../virtual-machines/windows/disk-encryption-overview.md)
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- Use Azure Storage service encryption for storage accounts with your own key to encrypt the storage account that holds the disks:
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- [Storage service encryption with customer-managed keys](../storage/common/customer-managed-keys-configure-key-vault.md)
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All these options enable you to have sole control over encryption keys. For more information, see [Overview of managed disk encryption options](../virtual-machines/disk-encryption-overview.md).
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#### Disk encryption for virtual machine scale sets
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You can encrypt disks that support virtual machine scale sets by using Azure Disk Encryption:
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- [Encrypt disks in virtual machine scale sets](../virtual-machine-scale-sets/disk-encryption-key-vault.md)
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## Containers
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