Management and governance

Azure Backup stands firm on the promise of simplicity, security, and reliability by giving customers a smooth and dependable experience across scenarios.

Alerts are an important mechanism for customers to get notified about issues early and to take automated actions to resolve them quickly.

Highlights from last week in Azure for the week of December 11, 2017: Azure France regions available in preview with availability zones, new management & cost savings, and more

The Azure Site Recovery (ASR) Deployment planner is now GA.

Enterprise customers choose Azure because of the unique value it provides as a productive, hybrid, intelligent and trusted cloud.

Highlights from last week in Azure for the week of November 27, 2017: Azure Location-Based Services, Azure Migrate, and more.

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.