Management and governance

Today we are announcing the general availability of Azure Monitor for virtual machines (VMs), which provides an in-depth view of VM performance trends and dependencies.

We recently announced a new solution, Backup Explorer, to enable you as a backup admin to perform real-time monitoring of your backups, helping you achieve increased efficiency in your day-to-day operations.

The theme this month is transparency. From rich Azure Hybrid Benefit and reservation reporting in a new Power BI app to a detailed breakdown of resource costs and clarity behind what “not applicable” means in the Azure portal, you won’t want to miss this one!

This Azure-only capability enables customers to run their most IO intensive workloads, without compromising on well-known deployment patterns for failover and high availability.

When running IT systems on-premises, you might try to ensure perfect availability by having gold-plated hardware, locking up the server room and throwing away the key.

At Microsoft Ignite, we announced the new Azure Migrate assessment capabilities that further simplify migration planning: support for assessment of physical servers, import-based assessments, application discovery and agentless application dependency analysis.

Welcome to a new year, a new decade, and an exciting roadmap full of cost management updates based on your feedback.

Today’s Q&A post covers an interview between Siddharth Deekshit, Program Manager, Microsoft Azure Site Recovery engineering and Quentin Drion, IT Director of Infrastructure and Operations, MSC.

We’ve released our newest Azure blueprint that maps to another key industry standard, Center for Internet Security (CIS) Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark.

We are pleased to share that Azure is the first major US cloud provider to achieve certification as a data processor for the new international standard ISO/IEC 27701 Privacy Information Management System (PIMS).

In 2019, Azure Cost Management established a strong foundation that ensures everyone in the organization has a means to report on, control, and optimize costs.

This post continues our reliability series kicked off by my July blog post highlighting several initiatives underway to keep improving platform availability, as part of our commitment to provide a trusted set of cloud services.