Azure updates

Public Preview: Resiliency Review on Azure Advisor

Target availability: Q1 2024

Improve your workload’s resiliency and optimize your cloud deployments by reviewing recommendations on Advisor

• Services
• Management
• Features

Azure Content Moderator will be retired on 15 March 2027

Target retirement date: March 15, 2027

We encourage users to explore our new offering Azure AI Content Safety that offers both new and updated capabilities to meet your content moderation needs.

• Retirements

Azure Advisor integration with Azure Monitor Log Analytics Workspace

Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that helps you follow best practices to optimize your Azure deployments. It analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry and then recommends solutions that can help you improve the cost effectiveness, performance, Reliability, and security of your Azure resources.   We in Azure Monitor believe that observability should be cost effective, and we want to help our customers control their cost, operational excellence, performance, reliability, and security of their  Azure  resources. This, in turn, helps grow their overall satisfaction with, and usage of Azure.  We have introduced several cost optimization related recommendations and added Azure Advisor to the Log Analytics Workspace admin experience. more recommendations are on the way. 

• Log Analytics
• Azure Advisor
• Pricing & Offerings
• Compliance
• Features

General Availability: Azure Advisor recommendation improves the reliability of Azure Disks with Zone Redundant Storage

Target availability: Q4 2023

Enable disks to tolerate zonal failures without causing disruptions to your application. To learn more, visit Reliability recommendations - Azure Advisor | Microsoft Learn

• Azure Advisor
• Management
• Features

AI Services Metrics Advisor will be retired on 1 October 2026

Target retirement date: October 01, 2026

AI Services Metrics Advisor will be retired on 1 October 2026.

• Services
• Retirements

General Availability: Improve VM resiliency with Azure Advisor's Availability Zone recommendation.

Target availability: Q3 2023

Avoid downtime and business interruptions by migrating your virtual machines to availability zones

• Azure Advisor
• Management

Public preview: Assess cost optimization opportunities using new workbook template in Azure Advisor

Target availability: Q3 2023

Review cost optimization insights for your Azure environment and identify savings using the new Cost Optimization workbook template in Azure Advisor.

• Azure Advisor
• Management

Public preview: Assess impact of service retirements using new workbook template in Azure Advisor

Review upcoming service and feature retirements and their impact on your workloads using the new Service Retirement workbook template which is available in Azure Advisor.

• Azure Advisor
• Management

Public preview: Optimize your workloads for reliability using new workbook template in Azure Advisor

Evaluate the reliability posture of your workloads, assess risks and plan improvements using the new Reliability workbook template which is now available in Azure Advisor.

• Azure Advisor
• Management

Azure Advisor VM/VMSS right-sizing recommendations with custom lookback period

You can now customize the right sizing recommendations for virtual machines and virtual machine scale sets to make them more relevant and actionable for your workloads.

• Azure Advisor
• Management

General availability: New cost recommendations for Virtual Machine Scale Sets

You can use new cost recommendations for Virtual Machine Scale Sets for optimisation.

• Azure Advisor
• Management

Generally available: Azure Advisor score across all Azure regions

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

• Azure Advisor
• Management
• Microsoft Ignite

Generally available: Tag filtering in Azure Advisor

Tag filtering is now available in Azure Advisor

• Azure Advisor
• Management

General availability: Azure Advisor support for Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server

Get personalized recommendations based on your Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server usage.

• Azure Database for MySQL
• Security
• Management
• Features

Public preview: Azure Applied AI Services enhancements

Enhancements in preview include Power Virtual Agents to enable sophisticated conversational flows; Azure Form Recognizer helps to streamline patient check-in and verification; Azure Metrics Advisor has simplified service customization.

• Azure AI services
• Services
• Microsoft Build

Public preview: Azure Cosmos DB partition key advisor notebook

The Azure Cosmos DB partition key advisor notebook helps recommend an optimal partition key based on information you provide about your workload traffic patterns and queries.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Features