Manage your cloud environment with new tools
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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|
| Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | 
Apr 3, 2024 |
Jul 16, 2024 |
Business value
Drift analysis enables customers to monitor how active cloud environments diverge from their desired architecture and configuration, identifying intentional or unintentional deviations. This provides a clear view of the environment’s evolution over time, allowing organizations to address any issues or risks that may arise. The assessment tool provides a pre-deployment evaluation of Azure resources against established best practices, including the evaluation of resource locations and Azure policy assignments.
Feature details
We are making available on GitHub enhancements to our Lifecycle tools. In this release, we’re excited to introduce new capabilities designed to empower users with greater visibility, control, and compliance across their Azure environments. Our goal is to continually improve the efficiency, reliability, and compliance capabilities of our tools to better meet the evolving needs of our customers.
The Drift Analyzer and Assessment utility will be enhanced to enable users to save reports locally as well as view older saved reports, allowing for a more comprehensive view of Assessment and Drift status over time.
The Assessment utility will be adding a resource residency map. Once a user has run an Assessment, they will be able to visualize where all resources in their subscription are deployed using a map of Azure regions. This makes it easy to quickly see and understand where resources are deployed.