Azure updates

Generally available: Diagnostic audit logs for Automation accounts

Forward Azure Automation diagnostic audit logs to Log analytics workspace to keep track of changes at the automation account level.

• Security
• Services
• Management
• Features

General availability: Azure Backup now supports vault-archive tier for Azure VMs

Azure Backup now provides the capability to move long term retention (LTR) recovery points to low-cost archive tier for Azure Virtual Machines.

• Azure Backup
• Management
• Features

Public preview: Azure Backup supports metrics and metric alerts for Azure Blobs

You can now monitor the restore job health of your backed up blobs via Azure Monitor metrics and write custom alert rules on these metrics.

• Azure Backup
• Azure Monitor
• Management

Generally available: Access time-based lifecycle management rules for Data Lake Storage Gen2

Access time tracking for objects and lifecycle management policies based on last accessed time in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.

• Azure Data Lake Storage
• Storage Accounts
• Management
• Features

Generally available: On-demand capacity reservation with Azure Site Recovery safeguards VMs failover

Integrating Site Recovery with capacity reservation to reserve compute capacity in the disaster recovery region and use that for failover.

• Azure Site Recovery
• Management
• Features

Generally available: Azure Data Explorer supports multiple databases per data connection

Target availability: Q1 2022

Dynamically route Azure Data Explorer data to an alternate database

• Azure Data Explorer
• Azure IoT Hub
• Event Grid
• Azure Blob Storage
• IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service
• SDK and Tools
• Services
• Management
• Features

Generally available: Support for private links in Azure Monitor agent

Use Azure Monitor agent and data collection rules in restricted environments and maintain network isolation by leveraging private links.

• Azure Monitor
• Management

Public preview: Azure Backup support for trusted launch Azure Virtual Machines

Target availability: Q2 2022

Trusted Launch VM Backup support from Azure Backup helps to protect Trusted Launch VMs which improves the security of generation 2 VMs in Azure.

• Management
• Features

Public preview: Azure Chaos Studio Key Vault and Classic Cloud Services faults

Azure Chaos Studio has new faults available for denying access to a Key Vault and shutting down a Classic Cloud Service.

• Azure Chaos Studio
• Key Vault
• Cloud Services
• Security
• Management
• Features

Public preview: Schedule automated emails of your saved cost views

Subscribe to daily, weekly, or monthly updates of your saved cost views in Azure Cost Management to stay informed about changes in cost.

• Microsoft Cost Management
• Management

Generally available: Log Analytics data export in Azure Monitor

Log Analytics data export is ready for production deployments, supporting most tables in Log Analytics workspaces.

• Azure Monitor
• Management
• Features

General availability: Custom retention for AzureActivity and Usage data tables

Set specific retention periods on AzureActivity and Usage data tables in Log Analytics workspaces, keeping such data for a longer time, while maintaining the workspace retention as low as needed.

• Management
• Features

Public preview: New capabilities for Azure Monitor logs

Add value and increase cost effectiveness with Azure Monitor logs

• Management

Public preview: Cost Management anomaly detection for subscriptions

Azure Cost Management offers subscription cost anomaly detection within the cost analysis preview to raise awareness and help identify unexpected changes in cost.

• Microsoft Cost Management
• Management
• Features

Public preview: Resource configuration changes

Resource configuration changes, a feature enabling the querying of changes to Azure resource configurations across subscriptions, management groups, and tenant, is now in public preview.

• Azure Resource Graph
• Azure Resource Manager
• Change Analysis
• Management
• Features

In development: Price sheet download as a zip file

Price sheet download experience update for using Azure in a small business environment.

• Microsoft Cost Management
• Management

General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) additional regions available

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) is now available in the Central US, South Central US, West Central US, and West US regions to distribute your Postgres database.

• Azure Database for PostgreSQL
• Regions & Datacenters
• Management