Management + Governance

Get your Azure best practice recommendations as soon as they become available with Azure Advisor user-configured alerts, now available in preview.

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

NIST SP 800-53 R4 is now live as a built-in blueprint in Azure Blueprints.

There’s a new, more convenient way to share customized views in Azure Cost Management—directly from cost analysis.

Customizing a view in Azure Cost Management is easy. Pick the date range you need, group the data to see a breakdown, choose the right visualization, and you're good to…

This month, Azure portal has updates to Azure Security Center and a new experience for Azure Migrate.

Migrate any Azure Automation Service Management REST APIs and PowerShell cmdlets for Azure Automation to Resource Manager REST APIs or the latest PowerShell cmdlets by January 30, 2020.

We are excited to announce the release of a new budgets creation experience for all customers.

Azure Cloud Shell has added a number of new tools and capabilities.

Learn about how Azure Cost Management can help you achieve your goals. See what's coming for partners, learn about Marketplace usage for pay-as-you-go subscriptions, Cost Management Labs, saving and sharing…

We are excited to announce a preview release of Azure marketplace charges within our Cost Analysis tool for Pay-As-You-Go customers. As a part of this preview you can now analyze…

This month, Azure portal updates include updates to Azure Security Center, the ability to use ephemeral OS disks on Azure VMs, sending Windows diagnostics data to Azure Monitor and more.

Azure Resource Graph, which enables exploration of your resources at scale, is now generally available for all Azure customers.

Azure Lighthouse provides service providers with a single control plane to manage across customer estates with increased automation, efficiency, and governance.

Manage your Security Center recommendations through Advisor UI, API, CLI, or PowerShell. Remediate recommendations quickly with bulk actions. Follow more than 20 new best practice recommendations for availability, performance, and…

Announcing exciting updates that improve the user experience in the Azure portal

Now you can manage your AWS spend along your Azure spend in Azure Cost Management

GitHub identities are now supported as sign in option to log in to Azure. An existing Microsoft account is no longer needed to sign in to Azure.

Azure Policy now has the capability of adding policy controls inside your AKS clusters including pods, namespaces and ingress

GitHub identities are now supported as sign in option to log in to Azure. An existing Microsoft account is no longer needed to sign in to Azure.

New services and capabilities are available in preview through Azure Cognitive Services.

The following Azure Cognitive Services capabilities are now generally available: neural text to speech and computer vision read.

Azure Policy integration for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) allows users to apply at-scale enforcements and safeguards for AKS clusters in a centralized, consistent manner. We are also introducing new capabilities…

Apply at-scale enforcements and safeguards for AKS clusters in a centralized, consistent manner through Azure Policy.

Azure Security Center policy updates are now performed from Azure Policy.

Learn about updates to the Azure portal for March 2019, including Virtual Network Gateway overview page changes, new full-screen DNS Zone and Load Balancer create blades, and Azure Management Group…

A new video weekly series highlights specific aspects of the Azure portal so you can be more efficient and productive while deploying your cloud workloads from the portal.

New functionalities have been added to Azure Policy, including root cause analysis and change tracking features.

Azure Automation now supports the Azure PowerShell Az module.

Azure Cost Management is now generally available for EA customers

Announcing Azure Cost Management preview for Azure Government.

Azure Cost Management for pay-as-you-go is now in preview.

Learn about updates made to the Azure portal for February 2019.

Azure Standard Load Balancer and Standard Public IP are now generally available in Azure Government cloud regions.

Learn about updates made available to the Azure portal for December 2018.

Azure Policy Guest Configuration provides the capability to audit settings inside VMs on Azure. The newest policy offers the ability to check for known applications installed inside VMs on Azure.

See updates to the Azure portal in November 2018.

The new release of PowerShell in Cloud Shell is fast, portable, and offers open-source capabilities.

Azure Standard Load Balancer is now generally available in Azure China cloud regions.

You can create and manage premium blob storage accounts from the Azure portal. This preview is available in the US East 2, US Central, and US West regions.

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.

A new feature is in preview for Azure Policy. Azure customers now have native tooling that offers visibility inside virtual machines to server and application settings across their subscriptions.

Azure governance services updates

PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell is now generally available.

Azure Cost Management is in the Azure portal and currently in preview. It's now enabled by default, with improved performance and fuly integrated into the Azure platform.

Azure Blueprints enables the creation of fully governed environments in a repetitive manner.

Azure Policy integration with Azure DevOps is now available.

Additional recommendations are now available in Azure Advisor, your personalized guide to Azure best practices. Advisor is a free service that helps you optimize your Azure resources to reduce costs,…

Update Management now supports dynamic groups, pre/post tasks, and inclusion lists.

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.