Azure Monitor support for OpenCensus will end on 30 September 2024 – transition to using Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Python Distro

Management + Governance, Automation

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

09/07/2020

Management + Governance, Cost Management

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…

09/09/2019

Management + Governance, Azure Advisor

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.

13/11/2019

Management + Governance, Azure Backup

Reserved capacity for Azure Backup Storage is now available.

14/09/2022

Management + Governance, Azure Backup

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

30/06/2022

Management + Governance, Azure Monitor

Use OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation with vender-neutral APIs to power metrics, logs, and distributed traces in Azure Monitor application insights.

30/11/2023

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, Cloud Shell

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

10/08/2020

Management + Governance, Automation

You can now create a Classic Run As account from the Azure portal.

05/08/2016

Management + Governance, Automation

An update to the public preview of the Microsoft Azure Automation Graphical Authoring SDK has been released.

19/10/2016

Management + Governance, Automation

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

05/01/2021

Management + Governance, Azure Arc

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

02/11/2021