Management and governance

The Cloud Cost Management (CCM) APIs provides a rich set of APIs to get detailed reporting on your Azure usage and charges.

Today, we are announcing the general availability of the next generation of alerts in Azure.

Access Control Service, otherwise known as ACS, is officially being retired. ACS will remain available for existing customers until November 7, 2018. After this date, ACS will be shut down, causing all requests to the service to fail.

Announcing general availability of large disk support and backup and restore performance improvements.

Azure Automation provides the ability to automate, configure, and deploy updates across your hybrid environment using serverless automation. These capabilities are now generally available.

Announcing the public preview of Traffic Analytics, a cloud-based flow monitoring solution that provides visibility into user and application traffic on your cloud networks.

Our goal with Azure Monitoring tools is to provide full-stack monitoring for your applications. The top of this “stack” isn’t the client-side of your app, it’s your users themselves.

Get caught up on what happened in Azure last week for the week of February 26, 2018, such as Azure for Students, Microsoft Cognitive Services vision & search services, Azure Migrate, StorSimple Data Manager, Azure Advanced Threat Protection, and more.

A few months ago, we announced Azure Migrate – a new service that provides guidance and insights to help you migrate to Azure. Today, we’re excited to announce that Azure Migrate is generally available.

Last week in Azure, the Azure SDK for GA became generally available, Microsoft Build registration opened, we announced Microsoft Startups with up to $120,000 in free Azure credits, and more.

We previously announced the preview of Azure Backup reporting and gave customers the ability to generate their own reports and build customizations using Power BI.

Looking back over the past year and seeing the progress we’ve made gives us a real sense of momentum as we continue to double-down on our investments in Azure Government in 2018.