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March 2023

Mar 29

Generally available: New Azure Monitor audit logging policy released

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor is announcing the release of new Azure Policy built-in policies and initiatives for enabling platform logging of audit events for Azure services.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Policy
  • Compliance
  • Features

October 2021

Oct 26

General availability: Azure governance policy for Azure Key Vault

NOW AVAILABLE

Integration of Azure Key Vault with Azure Policy has reached general availability and is now ready for production use. Azure Policy provides the ability to place guardrails on Key Vault and its objects to ensure they are compliant with your organizations security recommendations and compliance regulations. It allows you to perform real time policy-based enforcement and on-demand compliance assessment of existing secrets in your Azure environment.

  • Key Vault
  • Azure Policy
  • Compliance
  • Management
  • Features
  • Security

September 2021

Sep 1

General availability: Update in policy compliance for Azure Kubernetes Policies

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Kubernetes policies now surface error states to you, providing important information about potential errors in your environment.

  • Azure Policy
  • Services
  • Management
Sep 1

Custom AKS policy support - now public preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure Policy and AKS teams announce the public preview of custom policy support for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters. With this feature is enabled, you can create and assign custom policy definitions and constraint templates to their AKS clusters, see enhanced error state information for troubleshooting, use embedded constraint template inside policy definitions, and more.

  • Azure Policy
  • Management
  • Features

August 2021

Aug 24

Public preview: Apply settings inside machines using Azure Policy's guest configuration

IN PREVIEW

Azure Policy can audit or configure settings inside a machine, both for machines running in Azure and Arc-enabled hybrid machines.

  • Azure Policy
  • Azure Arc enabled servers
  • Azure Arc
  • Azure Guest Configuration for Azure Arc Connected Servers
  • Azure Automanage
  • Compliance
  • Management
  • Features

July 2021

Jul 14

General availability: New Azure Monitor built-in policy for Log Analytics workspace and linked automation account

NOW AVAILABLE

A new Azure Monitor built-in policy gives you control to provision central Log Analytics workspaces and linked automation account across your subscriptions consistently.

  • Azure Policy
  • Azure Monitor
  • Management
  • Features

June 2021

Jun 7

General availability: Update in Policy Compliance for Resource Type Policies

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Policy built-in policies in which resource type is the only evaluation criterion (e.g. Allowed Resource Types, Disallowed Resource Types) have updated logic to provide a more accurate assessment of your overall environment when aggregated with other policies.

  • Azure Policy
  • Services
  • Management

April 2021

Apr 29

Azure Site Recovery now supports Azure Policy in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Leverage Azure Policy to enable Azure Site Recovery for your VMs at scale and ensure organizational standards.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Azure Policy
  • Virtual Machines
  • Windows Virtual Machines
  • Management
  • Features
Apr 14

General availability: New Azure Policy built-in definitions for data encryption in Azure Monitor

NOW AVAILABLE

With Azure Monitor built-in policy definitions for data encryption, you can enforce organizational standards and assess compliance of data encryption settings in your environment.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Policy
  • Management
  • Features

November 2020

Nov 25

Export and manage Azure Policy as code with GitHub

IN PREVIEW

New integrations in between Azure Policy and GitHub are now in public preview.

  • Azure Policy
  • Compliance
  • Management

October 2020

Oct 21

Azure Policy for Key Vault now supports keys, secrets, and certificates

IN PREVIEW

Get a deeper view into your organization's security posture, configure daily automated audits, and start enforcing best practices in under 5 minutes.

  • Key Vault
  • Azure Policy
  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Compliance
  • Features
  • Security

September 2020

Sep 22

GA: Policy add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now set policies beyond the Azure Resource Manager level and drive in-depth compliance across pods, namespaces, ingress, and other Kubernetes resources.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Policy
  • Features
Sep 22

Azure Arc enabled servers are now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Arc enabled servers are now generally available for Windows and Linux servers outside of Azure

  • Azure Resource Manager
  • Azure Policy
  • Compliance
  • Services
  • Management

August 2020

Aug 19

Azure Policy Compliance Scan Action for GitHub Workflows is in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Trigger on-demand Azure policy compliance scan on Azure resources from GitHub workflows and proceed/fail workflow execution depending on compliance state of resources.

  • Azure Policy
  • Compliance
  • Management
  • Features

July 2020

Jul 21

Secure Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) pods with Azure Policy (in preview)

IN PREVIEW

To improve the security of your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster, secure your pods with Azure Policy (in preview). Users can choose from a list of built-in options and apply those policies to secure pods.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Policy
  • Features

May 2020

May 19

Azure Policy for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in preview

IN PREVIEW

Audit and enforce configurations on your resources at scale across all your Azure resources with Azure Policy. Use Azure Policy for AKS to set policies on pods, namespaces, and ingress in between others.

  • Azure Policy
  • Services

November 2019

Nov 4

Introducing the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

NOW AVAILABLE

The Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure is proven guidance to accelerate your cloud adoption journey. It’s a collection of tools, guidance, and best practices to help shape your cloud strategy and achieve the desired business goals.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Azure DevOps Projects
  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Resource Manager
  • Azure Blueprints
  • Azure Management Groups
  • Azure Policy
  • Microsoft Cost Management
  • Azure Database Migration Service (classic)
  • Azure Migrate
  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Azure Advisor
  • Azure Service Health
  • Compliance
  • Management
  • Security

October 2019

Oct 21

Azure Resource Graph—New join support functionality is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Resource Graph now supports join, enabling you to correlate between resources and their properties.

  • Azure Resource Graph
  • Azure Policy
  • Services
  • Features

September 2019

Sep 19

Azure provides at-scale tags management through Azure Policy

IN PREVIEW

Azure Policy now supports remediation for tagging so you can bring 100% of your resources back to compliance.

  • Azure Policy
  • Management

July 2019

Jul 15

Azure Resource Graph is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Resource Graph, which enables exploration of your resources at scale, is now generally available for all Azure customers.

  • Azure Policy
  • Azure Blueprints
  • Azure Management Groups
  • Microsoft Cost Management
  • Features

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