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2026 15

  1. A closer look at noise reduction in Stacks What-If
  2. Open Sourcing the Azure Policy Linter!
  3. Public Preview Annoucement: Azure Policy Custom Policy Versioning!
  4. Automating Compliance Scope Enforcement with Azure Policy
  5. [Now Generally Available] What-If for Azure Deployment Stacks
  6. Introducing Compliance Substate for Azure Policy Exemptions!
  7. Introducing Kubernetes-Native Policy Validation with CEL and VAP in Azure Policy
  8. Azure landing zone (ALZ) enters its next chapter
  9. ARM MCP Server: A Catalog of 24 PoCs
  10. [Preview] CIS Benchmarks on Azure; Now for Windows Server
  11. [Now Generally Available] Customizable Security Baseline Policies in Machine Configuration!
  12. Introducing the Azure Resource Manager MCP Server!
  13. New Local Management Group for ALZ & Updated Sovereign Policies for SLZ
  14. Announcing One‑Command Backup Configuration for AKS with Azure Backup
  15. Announcing Public Preview for Essential Machine Management

2025 38

  1. Azure Policy: Required Actions for Docker Content Trust Deprecation in Azure Container Registry
  2. Announcing General Availability for Azure Resource Graph (ARG) GET/LIST API
  3. Azure Governance @ Ignite 2025
  4. Optimize Your Cloud Environment Using Agentic AI
  5. Improve your resiliency posture with new capabilities and intelligent assistance
  6. [Public Preview] Introducing Customizable Security Baseline Policies in Machine Configuration
  7. Empower Smarter AI Agent Investments
  8. AMBA-ALZ pattern: Learn about the latest and greatest enhancements!
  9. Cloud and AI Cost Efficiency: A Strategic Imperative for Long-Term Business Growth
  10. GA: Enhanced Audit in Azure Security Baseline for Linux
  11. Designing for Certainty: How Azure Capacity Reservations Safeguard Mission‑Critical Workloads
  12. System-Assigned Identity-based Access for Machine Configuration Packages – GA on both Azure and Arc!
  13. Announcing Public Preview for Azure Service Groups!
  14. Create your own Bicep Local Extension using .NET
  15. Announcing GA of Bicep templates support for Microsoft Entra ID resources
  16. Azure Automation: General Availability of PowerShell 7.4, Python 3.10 runbooks, Runtime Environment
  17. 🚨 Azure Service Health Built-In Policy (Preview) – Now Available!
  18. A New Platform Management Group & Subscription for Security in Azure landing zone (ALZ)
  19. Troubleshooting missing prerequisites for Azure Machine Configuration - in 3 easy steps!
  20. Common Azure Policy Issues and Solutions
  21. Everything New in Azure Governance @ Build 2025
  22. Keep your Azure Landing Zones policy assignments up to date with Azure Governance Visualizer
  23. Azure Backup for PostgreSQL flexible server: Enterprise-grade solution for resiliency and compliance
  24. [Public Preview] Dynamically organize your cloud resources with Azure Service Groups!
  25. Introducing Terraform support for Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts (AMBA) for Azure landing Zones (ALZ)
  26. Sustainable cloud journey: from on-premises to Azure optimization
  27. Why Even Stateless AKS Clusters Might Need Backup
  28. New RAMP process in the Cloud Adoption Framework to manage your Azure estate
  29. Time for new exciting news about AMBA-ALZ pattern!
  30. SSH Posture Control for Linux is now GA!
  31. Change Tracking & Inventory: Enhanced discovery & onboarding to manage in-guest actions efficiently
  32. Subscription Vending, now and beyond
  33. Removal of Azure Policy aliases for Microsoft.Insights/alertRules
  34. New IDC study: Azure Essentials leads to faster migrations, improved resiliency, and cost efficiency
  35. Log Analytics Agent-based Azure Management Services: Shut down starting 28 February 2025
  36. Azure Landing Zones - Policy Refresh Q2 FY25
  37. Exciting News: AMBA Portal Accelerator is now Generally Available!
  38. Tech Accelerator: Mastering Azure and AI adoption

2024 39

  1. Azure Landing Zones alignment with Azure Innovations
  2. Securing Your Azure Automation Variables Automatically
  3. Finding value in workload resiliency
  4. Azure Change Tracking & Inventory: Simplified onboarding to manage in-guest changes on Azure Arc VMs
  5. Azure Automation is revising Service and Subscription Limits
  6. Ensure failover capacity at optimal cost with Azure Site Recovery
  7. Everything New in Azure Governance @ Ignite 2024
  8. User-Assigned Identity-based Access for Machine Configuration Packages – Generally Available
  9. Data Ingestion for Azure Event Hubs: Quick Guide
  10. Azure Landing Zones - Policy Refresh Q1 FY25
  11. Custom Policy- Reusable Logs Templates
  12. Enhancements to Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts for Azure Landing Zones
  13. Introducing the Azure Policy Community Repo
  14. General Availability: Vaulted backups for Azure Blob Storage
  15. Azure Update Manager to support CIS hardened images among other images
  16. Mastering your cloud journey: Essentials to Innovating, Migrating and Modernizing, on Azure
  17. Public Preview Announcement: Azure Policy Built-in Versioning
  18. Announcing Azure Monitoring Agent support in Azure Landing Zones
  19. Announcing the General Availability of Change Actor
  20. Announcing Zone Redundancy and Multi-Region Capabilities in Azure Landing Zones
  21. Azure pricing: How to optimize costs for your Azure workloads
  22. Azure pricing: How to calculate costs of Azure products and services
  23. Azure Pricing: How to estimate Azure project costs
  24. Azure Pricing: How to navigate Azure pricing options and resources
  25. ARM Deployment Stacks now GA!
  26. What’s new across Azure Governance services, Microsoft Build 2024
  27. Monitor effectively using Azure Monitor for Azure Site Recovery
  28. Preview: Introducing Reporting Capabilities for Azure Site Recovery
  29. Announcing public preview of Bicep templates support for Microsoft Graph
  30. Unleash the Power of Insights: Azure Resource Graph Power BI Data Connector Now Generally Available
  31. Generally available: Automation Update Management to Azure Update Manager migration tool
  32. Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Change Analysis New Portal Experience
  33. Azure billing meters: What you need to know about the upcoming changes
  34. Four Strategies for Cost-Effective Azure Monitoring and Log Analytics
  35. Azure Monitor Availability alerts using Resource Graph Queries
  36. Announcing the Public Preview of Change Actor
  37. Refreshed Identity and Access Management CAF documentation
  38. Modernizing Azure Automation: A 2023 Retrospective and Future outlook
  39. Rehosting On-Premises Process Automation when migrating to Azure

2023 33

  1. Using Azure Site Recovery & Microsoft Defender for Servers to securely failover to malware-free VMs
  2. Azure Resource Graph x Power BI is finally here!
  3. Security and ransomware protection with Azure Backup
  4. Everything New in Azure Governance @ Ignite 2023
  5. Announcing Public Preview of Resource Management and Health Resources Event Grid System Topics
  6. Remediate your Azure Kubernetes Service clusters at scale using Azure Policy’s mutation support!
  7. Announcing the Public Preview of Alerting on Azure Resource Graph
  8. Now Open Source: Simplify authoring custom machine configuration policy using the Powershell module!
  9. Announcing General Availability: Azure Change Tracking & Inventory using Azure Monitor agent (AMA)
  10. Built-in Azure Monitor alerts for Azure Site Recovery is now in public preview
  11. Announcing AuthorizationResources in Azure Resource Graph
  12. General Availability of Azure Automation extension for Visual Studio Code
  13. Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts (AMBA) for Azure landing zone (ALZ) is Generally Available (GA)!
  14. Generally available: Secure critical infrastructure from accidental deletions at scale with Policy
  15. Efficient Identity Management in Azure Chaos Studio for Secure Fault Injection
  16. Generally Available: Azure Update Manager
  17. Azure Budgets and Azure OpenAI Cost Management
  18. ARM Deployment Stacks now Public Preview!
  19. Azure portal May 2023 updates
  20. Announcing the public preview of Service Retirement Workbook in Azure Advisor
  21. Public Preview: Windows Services & Daemons support for Change Tracking & Inventory with AMA
  22. Azure portal April 2023 updates
  23. Azure Backup Reports now includes support for more workloads
  24. Azure Automation: A Comprehensive Recap of 2022 and What's Coming
  25. Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts (Preview)
  26. Generally available: Immutable vaults with Azure Backup
  27. Now Open Source: nxtools, managing Linux IaC just got simpler using Automanage machine configuration
  28. Apply CIS compliant Azure Security baselines through Azure Automanage!
  29. Azure portal January 2023 updates
  30. Azure Automation Run As accounts retiring on 30 September 2023
  31. Azure portal December 2022 updates
  32. Announcing public preview: Azure Change Tracking & Inventory using Azure Monitor agent (AMA)
  33. Public Preview of Azure Automation extension for Visual Studio Code

2022 26

  1. Prevent accidental deletions at scale using Azure Policy
  2. Azure portal November 2022 updates
  3. Azure portal October 2022 updates
  4. General Availability: Azure Automation Hybrid Runbook Worker Extension
  5. The top 5 reasons why backup and recovery in the cloud goes wrong and how to avoid them
  6. Public preview: Immutable vaults with Azure Backup
  7. Azure portal September 2022 updates
  8. Generally available: Simplify management and operations with Azure Automanage Machine Best Practices
  9. Azure Policy announces enhancements for gradual rollout, custom evaluations & Kubernetes policy!
  10. Upgrading your server and client TLS protocol just got easier using Automanage Machine Configuration
  11. Built-in Azure Monitor alerts for Azure Backup is now generally available
  12. Azure portal July 2022 updates
  13. Automatic extension upgrade of Desired State Configuration (DSC) extension for Linux
  14. Generally available: Apply settings inside machines using Machine configuration
  15. Using Azure templateSpecs with a Custom UI
  16. Business Impacts to Healthy Cloud Monitoring
  17. Azure portal June 2022 updates
  18. Announcing Public Preview of Update management center
  19. Azure Backup: Migrate to Azure Monitor alerts using the template-based portal experience
  20. Azure Backup: Multi-user authorization for Recovery Services vaults is now generally available
  21. Azure portal May 2022 updates
  22. Coming soon: guest configuration renames to machine configuration
  23. Chaos engineering to improve application resiliency using Azure Chaos Studio
  24. Azure portal March 2022 updates
  25. Achieve cost-effectiveness using vault-archive tier for Azure Backup
  26. Security Trends for 2022

2021 28

  1. Azure portal December 2021 updates
  2. Announcing Azure Resource Manager metrics in Azure Monitor
  3. Azure Instance Metadata Service-Attested data TLS 2025 Critical Changes
  4. Simplify IT server management through Azure Automanage - new features!
  5. Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Chaos Studio
  6. Tailored Well-Architected Assessments for your workloads
  7. Removing friction from release engineering
  8. Azure portal September 2021 updates
  9. Azure Automation Hybrid Extension support for Azure VMs and Arc-enabled servers now in Preview
  10. Well-Architected takes us backstage at Azure
  11. Azure Policy for Kubernetes releases support for custom policy
  12. Azure Policy introduces user assigned MSI support, faster DINE deployment, and more!
  13. Azure portal July 2021 update
  14. Azure portal June 2021 update
  15. Learn how to deploy and manage your Azure resources with Bicep!
  16. Monitoring quotas programmatically
  17. Azure portal May 2021 update
  18. ARM Template Specs now GA!
  19. Azure portal April 2021 update
  20. Creating Subscriptions with ARM Templates
  21. Azure portal March 2021 update
  22. Azure portal February 2021 update
  23. Using the new Quota REST API
  24. Azure Resource Mover now generally available: Move seamlessly between Azure regions
  25. Azure Automanage for virtual machines – Public Preview update
  26. Azure portal January 2021 update
  27. ARM Template Specs is now Public Preview!
  28. Azure Automation Runbooks moving to GitHub

2020 17

  1. Azure portal December 2020 update
  2. What-If for ARM Template deployments is now Generally Available
  3. Deployment Scripts for ARM Templates is now Generally Available
  4. Azure portal November 2020 update
  5. Using GitHub for Azure Policy as Code
  6. Azure portal October 2020 update
  7. Azure portal September 2020 update
  8. Introducing Azure Resource Mover: a seamless way to move between Azure regions
  9. Azure Automanage for virtual machines - Public Preview
  10. Important change released for Guest Configuration audit policies
  11. Azure portal August 2020 update
  12. Azure portal July 2020 update
  13. Azure portal June 2020 update
  14. Azure portal May 2020 update
  15. Azure portal April 2020 update
  16. Azure portal March 2020 update
  17. Azure portal January 2020 update

2019 5

  1. Azure portal November 2019 update
  2. Azure portal September 2019 update
  3. Azure portal August 2019 update
  4. Azure portal July 2019 update
  5. Azure portal June 2019 update