General availability: Standard Load Balancer in Azure China cloud

Management + Governance, Automation

Azure Automation now supports Python 2 for general availability. You can import, author, and run Python 2 runbooks in Azure or on a Hybrid Runbook Worker.

17/09/2018

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, Automation

Use user-assigned identities for Azure Automation runbook jobs.

16/07/2021

Management + Governance, Azure Backup

You can now monitor the restore job health of your backed up blobs via Azure Monitor metrics and write custom alert rules on these metrics.

06/04/2022

Management + Governance, Azure Backup

Azure Backup and Azure Database Services bring to you a new backup solution for your PostgreSQL servers that retains backups for up to 10 years.

02/02/2022

Management + Governance, Azure Portal

For graphical runbooks in Azure Automation in the Preview portal, you can configure an activity to retry until some conditions are met.

23/11/2015

Management + Governance, Automation

For Azure Automation DSC, the names of the billing meters have changed.

16/11/2017

Management + Governance, Cloud Shell

Ansible, an open-source product that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, and application deployments, is now available to use in Bash in Cloud Shell.

01/02/2018

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, Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor support for OpenCensus will end on 30 September 2024

29/09/2023

Management + Governance, Automation

To support new features in Azure Automation, like Azure Private Links, the automation URLs have been updated. Instead of region-specific URLs, there are now account-specific URLs.

23/06/2020

Management + Governance, Azure Arc

Azure Arc enabled PostgreSQL Hyperscale provides elastic scale with a unified hybrid management experience with or without a direct connection to the cloud.

22/09/2020