diff --git a/plugins/kms/assets/windows/arm64/README.md b/plugins/kms/assets/windows/arm64/README.md
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+This directory contains assets for windows amd64 kms plugins. This file 
+in particular exists so that the Go embed package does not throw errors 
+when importing this module outside of the main tree.
diff --git a/plugins/kms/assets_windows_arm64.go b/plugins/kms/assets_windows_arm64.go
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+// Copyright IBM Corp. 2020, 2026
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0
+
+package kms_plugin_assets
+
+import (
+	"embed"
+)
+
+// content is our static kms plugin content.
+//
+//go:embed assets/windows/arm64
+var content embed.FS