Generally Available: Azure Update Manager

Management + Governance, Azure Backup

Azure Backup now acquires a lease on the snapshots taken by scheduled/on-demand backup jobs.

01/03/2022

Management + Governance, Cost Management

Automate the creation and management of Azure Cost Management scheduled emails with the ScheduledActions API.

25/05/2022

Management + Governance, Azure Monitor

Log Analytics agent–based VM insights will be retired.

06/10/2023

Management + Governance, Azure Advisor

Enable disks to tolerate zonal failures without causing disruptions to your application. To learn more, visit Reliability recommendations - Azure Advisor | Microsoft Learn

06/11/2023

Management + Governance, Cost Management

Azure cost management budget alert now supports action groups with common alert schema.

30/05/2022

Management + Governance, Azure Policy

Trigger on-demand Azure policy compliance scan on Azure resources from GitHub workflows and proceed/fail workflow execution depending on compliance state of resources.

19/08/2020

Management + Governance, Azure Policy

With Azure Monitor built-in policy definitions for data encryption, you can enforce organizational standards and assess compliance of data encryption settings in your environment.

14/04/2021

Management + Governance, Cost Management

Azure Cost Management is in preview. It can help you understand how and where you're accruing costs in the cloud, and how to keep costs down.

27/09/2018

Management + Governance, Cost Management

Cost Details API is now generally available for use by EA and MCA customers.

25/07/2022

Management + Governance, Azure Portal

The Virtual Network portal blade has been enhanced to troubleshoot connectivity and performance issues or continually monitor your network endpoints from virtual machines (VMs) in a virtual network.

30/08/2018

Management + Governance, Automation

New support has been added for more powerful tracking of Windows files, file content tracking and differencing, and adjustable Windows Service collection frequency.

29/08/2018

Management + Governance, Automation

Automate tasks across Azure & Non-Azure environment using PowerShell and Python based scripts.

23/03/2021