Management and governance

Highlights from last week in Azure for the week of November 20, 2017: Transforming your VMWare environment with Azure, Azure Advisor updates, and more.

Azure Automation has the ability to integrate and automate processes across Azure and on-premises environments using a hybrid worker. This hybrid management capability has been extended to now deliver an automatic response to events in your datacenter using watcher tasks.

At Microsoft Ignite 2017, we announced Azure Migrate – a new service that provides guidance, insights, and mechanisms to assist you in migrating to Azure.

When an Azure service incident affects you, we know that it is critical that you are equipped with all the information necessary to mitigate any potential impact.

Today we are announcing new services to help you at every step of your VMWare migration to Azure.

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

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Bash in Azure Cloud Shell. Bash in Cloud Shell provides an interactive web-based, Linux command-line experience from virtually anywhere. Learn more about Bash in Cloud Shell at aka.ms/cloudshell/bash.

Today, we are excited to introduce the Grafana plugin for Azure Monitor and Application Insights. v0.1.0 of the Azure Monitor Data Source plugin has now added support for the Azure US Government, Azure Germany, and Azure China clouds.

We are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Windows Server System State Backup to Azure with the Azure Backup agent.

I am excited to announce the general availability of Managed Applications in the Azure Marketplace. Managed Applications, an Azure unique offering, enables you to deploy entire applications and empower your partner to fully manage and maintain the application in your environment.

Azure Managed Applications enable Managed Service Providers (MSP) and Independent Software Vendors (ISV) partners, and enterprise IT teams to deliver fully managed, turnkey cloud solutions that can be made available through the Azure Marketplace or through the enterprise service catalog of a specific end-customer.

Highlights from last week in Azure for the week of October 23, 2017: Cray supercomputers in the cloud, managed Kubernetes, GDPR resources and tools, and more