Management + Governance

Log Analytics Tables can now be managed from the tables entry of Azure Portal in Log Analytics workspaces.

Use OpenTelemetry vender-neutral APIs to power distributed tracing and metrics experiences in Azure Monitor Application Insights.

Azure Backup enables you to configure cost-efficient backups while meeting your data residency requirements.

Enhanced soft delete helps you recover your backup data after it has been deleted, giving you protection against data loss scenarios like ransomwares, malicious actors, and accidental deletes.

Multi-user authorization provides enhanced protection for your backup data against unauthorized critical operations.

Immutable vaults helps you protect your backups against threats like ransomware attacks and malicious actors by ensuring that your backup data cannot be deleted before its intended expiry time.

Now, if a HANA database fails over with HANA System Replication, backups are automatically continued from the new primary, with Azure Backup for HANA.

Azure Advisor score enables you to quickly prioritize the Azure Advisor recommendations that will have the greatest impact on your workload health.

Enhancing network and resource health visualization with unified and dynamic topology across subscriptions, regions, and resource groups.

Integration of Azure Monitor Agent support in Connection Monitor for monitoring connectivity to ARC enabled endpoints.

Java application profiling using Java Flight Recorder (JFR) is now in preview in Azure Monitor application insights.

Azure Monitor Logs announce the general availability of capabilities that help you increase cost effectiveness.

Azure Monitor's new fully managed Prometheus compatible service delivers the best of what you like about open-source ecosystem while automating complex tasks such as scaling, high-availability, and long-term data retention.

Setting RBAC query read action on Azure Monitor Logs table is now publicly available.

Announcing the general availability for Azure Automanage with expanded configuration options.

Protect your large HANA databases in Azure Virtual Machines and recover them instantly with Azure Backup for HANA backint certified solution which now supports HANA snapshots.

Reserved capacity for Azure Backup Storage is now available.

Learn about the new and improved alerting capabilities offered for Azure Backup, via Azure Monitor.

Secure, govern, and manage your hybrid servers from Azure

Secure, govern, and manage your hybrid servers from Azure

Set the configuration of your Azure Virtual Machine or Azure Arc-enabled server using the enforcement mode of machine configuration (formerly guest configuration).

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

Move to Azure Monitor based alerts for Azure Backup with just a few clicks.

Tag filtering is now available in Azure Advisor

You can now configure your backup policy to move all your eligible and recommended recovery points to vault-archive tier for Azure Virtual Machines, SQL Server/SAP HANA in Azure Virtual Machines.

Multi-user authorization for Backup provides enhanced protection for your backup data in recovery services vaults against unauthorized critical operations.

Azure Arc-enabled System Center Virtual Machine Manager enables on-premises System Center Virtual Machine Manager environments to be connected to Azure, unlocking Azure-based self-service for end users and developers.

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

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

Azure Virtual Machine backup protects Write Accelerator enabled disks

New landing zone accelerator for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes gives you tools to accelerate and simplify hybrid and multicloud Kubernetes deployments.

Configure backup of your trusted launch Azure Virtual Machines through enhanced policy

Enhance your security posture by leveraging Azure private endpoints to connect your on-premises servers to Azure Arc privately.

Azure Backup now provides the capability to move long term retention (LTR) recovery points to low-cost archive tier for Azure Virtual Machines.

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.

Subscribe to daily, weekly, or monthly updates of your saved cost views in Azure Cost Management to stay informed about changes in cost.

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

The feature that allows you to configure multiple backups per day for Azure Files via backup policy is now generally available.

Manage your enrollment hierarchy, view account usage, and monitor costs directly from the Azure Cost Management and Billing menu on the Azure portal (for direct enterprise agreement customers on commercial cloud).

Azure Cost Management offers subscription cost anomaly detection within the cost analysis preview to raise awareness and help identify unexpected changes in cost.

Price sheet download experience update for using Azure in a small business environment.

AKS persistent volume backup provides backup and restore ability for the persistent volumes of your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster.

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.

Azure Cost Management has a new tabbed experience to streamline analysis as you drill into costs.

The new enhancements released for the security of hybrid backups enable you to integrate with MUA, protect against accidental deletion and avoid data loss in soft delete state.

Summary of key automation updates for Azure Backup in 2021

Azure Arc is announcing new functionality, which includes improved machine learning capabilities, and new features for Azure Arc-enabled data services.

Azure Monitor container insights for Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes is now generally available. You can now monitor all Kubernetes, AKS or non-AKS through container insights.

Azure Arc is announcing new functionality, which includes enhanced lifecycle management on VMware and Azure Stack HCI virtual machines.

Multi-user authorization for Backup provides enhanced protection for your Recovery Services vaults against unauthorized critical operations.