Azure Boost is a revolutionary accelerator system designed by Microsoft that offloads server virtualization processes traditionally performed by the hypervisor and host OS onto purpose-built software and hardware. This offloading frees up CPU resources for virtual machines, resulting in improved performance and a secure foundation for your cloud workloads. In this blog, we will talk about some of the advances we’ve made within Azure Host OS that allow us to provide the industry-leading benefits of Azure Boost and improve the security of our customers with other features. Azure Host OS (aka Cloud Host ), if you recall, is a purpose-built minimal version of Windows that powers Azure in the data center. These Azure Host advancements in conjunction with Azure Boost have enabled features like Confidential VMs, Trusted Launch, to improve IO performance, harden security, and introduce VM compatibility for seamless feature delivery. These features are powered by a completely new tra