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Azure Update Management Center

Centrally manage updates, patches, and compliance at scale

Manage updates for Azure, on-premises, and multicloud machines

Azure update management center is a unified service to help manage and govern updates for all your machines. Monitor Windows and Linux update compliance across your deployments in Azure, on-premises, and on other cloud platforms from a single dashboard. Make updates in real time or schedule them within a defined maintenance window.

Update compliance for your entire fleet of machines in Azure, on premises, and other cloud environments

Instant deployment of critical updates to help secure your machines

Flexible patching such as automatic VM guest patching in Azurehotpatching, and customer-defined maintenance schedules

Extended Security Updates for Windows Server 2012 R2 enabled by Azure Arc are now available.

Gain central visibility for update management

  • Oversee update compliance for your entire fleet of Windows and Linux machines including Azure machines and Azure Arc–enabled servers on a single dashboard.
  • View compliance status for each individual machine, easily deploy updates, and track results.
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Updates for a virtual machine in Azure

Manage updates natively in Azure with zero onboarding

  • Start managing updates for your machines natively in Azure with an intuitive user experience.
  • Use update management globally in all Azure and Azure Arc regions.

Apply security and critical patches with access controls

  • Provide granular access control for patch management at a per-resource level.
  • Delegate permissions for patch management tasks using role-based access control (RBAC).
A list of machines and updates for a user in Update management center
A list of machines and updates for a user in Update management center

Manage updates with flexibility

  • Take immediate action by installing updates right away or schedule them for a later date.
  • Check updates automatically or on demand.
  • Help secure your machines with new ways of patching such as automatic VM guest patching in Azurehotpatching, or custom maintenance schedules.
  • Use periodic assessment and scheduled patching at scale with Azure Policy.
  • Sync patch cycles in relation to Patch Tuesday—the unofficial term for Microsoft's scheduled security fix release on every second Tuesday.

Get Extended Security Updates for Windows Server 2012 R2

  • Secure your distributed Windows Server 2012 R2 resources beyond the end-of-support deadline with flexible pricing options.
  • View compliance status for each individual machine, easily deploy updates, and track results.
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Comprehensive security and compliance, built in

  • Microsoft invests more than $1 billion annually on cybersecurity research and development.

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  • We employ more than 3,500 security experts who are dedicated to data security and privacy.

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  • Azure has more certifications than any other cloud provider. View the comprehensive list.

  • ISO/IEC

  • CSA/CCM

  • ITAR

  • CJIS

  • HIPAA

  • IRS 1075

  • Azure update management center pricing

    Update management center is offered at no additional cost during the public preview. A pricing model will be introduced when it becomes generally available.

     

Get started with an Azure free account

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Start free. Get $200 credit to use within 30 days. While you have your credit, get free amounts of many of our most popular services, plus free amounts of 55+ other services that are always free.

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After your credit, move to pay as you go to keep building with the same free services. Pay only if you use more than your free monthly amounts.

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After 12 months, you'll keep getting 55+ always-free services—and still pay only for what you use beyond your free monthly amounts.

Frequently asked questions about Azure update management center

  • Read the Azure SLA.

  • No. Update management is now offered as an Azure service with no dependencies on Azure Automation or Azure Monitor Logs.

  • Update management continues to be free during the promotional period until May 25, 2024. A new pricing model will be introduced after this, and details will be published in the pricing section of this page when available.

  • Read the documentation to get started.

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