Management + Governance

Review new Azure Advisor recommendations to help you improve your cloud operations.

Run Azure Arc enabled data services on premises on any infrastructure of your choice with Azure cloud benefits like elastic scale, unified management, and a cloud billing model while staying…

You can now set policies beyond the Azure Resource Manager level and drive in-depth compliance across pods, namespaces, ingress, and other Kubernetes resources.

Measure, track, and improve your Azure optimization posture with prioritized Advisor best practice recommendations so you can get the most out of your Azure investments

Azure Arc enabled servers are now generally available for Windows and Linux servers outside of Azure

Azure Cost Management + Billing cost allocation is now in public preview.

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

An unauthenticated experience to get retail prices for all Azure Products/Services (including Reserved Instances).

Connector for AWS in Azure Cost Management is now Generally Available.

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

New Advisor cost optimization enhancements help you optimize and reduce your overall Azure spend.

Cloud Shell now supports virtual networks.

The Azure Cloud Shell tools image is now generally available on GitHub.

Azure monitor for containers with Azure portal now supports new Kubernetes resource view. In this new view you can diagnose the issue by drilling down to resource types including deployments,…

Remediate Advisor recommendations at scale more quickly and easily using Advisors new Quick Fix feature.

To improve the security of your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster, secure your pods with Azure Policy (in preview). Users can choose from a list of built-in options and apply…

You can now use Azure Private Link to securely connect virtual networks to Azure Automation using private endpoints (in preview).

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.

Azure Automation is now available in the USGov Arizona region.

Budget evaluations in Azure Cost Management now re-fire alerts for the same period after you edit a budget. Additionally, now Budgets will also allow you to set a threshold above…

Several critical updates have been made to Azure Lighthouse, including FEDRAMP certification, delegation opt-out, and Azure Backup reports.

Receive a periodic, customizable notification of your available Advisor recommendations to help you stay current on Azure best practices.

Audit and enforce configurations on your resources at scale across all your Azure resources with Azure Policy. Use Azure Policy for AKS to set policies on pods, namespaces, and ingress…

Azure custom roles can now be created and edited in the Azure portal. Use the new experience to ease your role-based access control (RBAC) workflow.

Budget evaluations in Azure Cost Management now include your reservation and Marketplace purchases

Create and manage Azure support tickets programmatically

This release enables many at-scale scenarios for consuming the Azure Advisor best practice recommendations, including querying Advisor recommendations for all your subscriptions and building your own custom views of Advisor…

We are pleased to announce the general availability of four new Azure RBAC roles – Savings plan administrator, Savings plan purchaser, Savings plan contributor and Savings plan reader.

21 new services added to FedRAMP High ATO, delivering on continued commitment to accelerating compliance for government customers

Azure Cloud Shell now supports additional storage regions.

Azure Automation is now available in the US Gov Arizona region in preview.

Azure Backup has released a new and improved reporting solution in public preview. With Backup Reports, you can now gain rich insights on your backups by aggregating data across workload…

Updated Cost by resource view in Cost Analysis. This improves drilldown experience to view costs accruing for each resource at a meter level.

The Azure Blueprint for FedRAMP High is now available in both Azure Government and Azure Public regions. This is in addition to the Azure Blueprint for FedRAMP Moderate released in…

Azure Cost Management can help you better understand where you're accruing costs in the cloud, identify and help prevent bad spending patterns, and optimize costs to empower you to do…

New Azure Lighthouse features are now generally available, including a built-in role for managed service providers to opt out of managing delegated scopes and the ability to Azure Resource Graph…

The new PowerShell module for Azure provides updates to all Azure services and comes with a preview module for Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Functions.

New updates to Azure Cost Management help you manage costs for cloud solution provider (CSP) subscriptions, build better dashboards by customizing tile names, save money with Azure reservations for 16…

Azure Advisor is launching a new category of recommendations called operational excellence. This new category will help you follow best practices for process and workflow efficiency, resource manageability, and deployment.

New updates to Azure Cost Management help you better understand what you're spending, where you’re spending it, and how to optimize and plan for the future.

Azure Arc enabled API Management allows customers to leverage a self-hosted API gateway, that expands API Management support for hybrid and multi-cloud environments and enables Azure customers to efficiently and…

Azure Arc is a set of technologies that unlocks new hybrid scenarios for customers by bringing Azure services and management to any infrastructure.

Starting December 1, 2019, the meter IDs for Process Automation Watcher will change.

Azure Resource Graph now supports join, enabling you to correlate between resources and their properties.

Here are the Cost Management features that are generally available as of October 2019.

Please find a table below outlining the Cost Management features that are currently in preview.

Advisor has made enhancements to its popular cost recommendation to resize or shut down under-utilized virtual machines. Although certain scenarios result in low utilization by design, you can often save…

Azure built-in blueprints help you be compliant in an easier way by providing Microsoft vetted blueprints that you can apply easily on your subscriptions.

The Azure portal has updates to Azure Data Explorer and to Azure SQL.

Azure Policy now supports remediation for tagging so you can bring 100% of your resources back to compliance.