Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Cloud and workloads

Verify Machine Protection

In brief

The article now applies to both Azure commercial and Azure Government clouds, replacing the separate Government-cloud article reference.

What Defender admins need to know

Azure Government administrators can use this article for machine protection verification guidance; no action is required.

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Important

This article applies to Azure commercial clouds. If you're usingcloud and Azure Government clouds, see the Verify SQL machine protection government article.cloud.

After you enable Defender for SQL Servers on Machines, use the following verification procedures to confirm coverage for SQL Servers on Azure VMs, on-premises machines, and multiple cloud resources. You can check the protection status for an entire Azure subscription or verify a single SQL server virtual machine (VM) or Azure Arc SQL Server instance.