Stay current with Azure

Cloud platforms like Azure change faster than many organizations are accustomed to. This pace of change means that organizations have to adapt people and processes to a new cadence. If you're responsible for helping your organization keep up with change, you might feel overwhelmed at times. The resources listed in this section can help you stay up to date.

Top resources

The following resources can help you stay current with Azure:

• Azure Service Health: Service Health alerts provide timely notifications about ongoing service issues, planned maintenance, and health advisories. These alerts also includes information about Azure features scheduled for retirement.
• Azure updates: Review Azure updates for announcements about product updates. Brief summaries link to additional details, making the updates easy to follow. Subscribe via the Azure updates RSS feed.
• Azure blog: The Azure blog communicates the most important announcements for the Azure platform. Follow this blog to stay up to date on critical information. Subscribe via the Azure blog RSS feed.
• Service-specific blogs: Many individual Azure services publish blogs that you can follow if you rely on those services. Find the ones you're interested in via a web search.

Additional resources

For deeper content that helps you stay current with Azure topics, review these resources:

• Azure Friday: Weekly videos with the engineers who build Azure. They do demos, answer questions, and share insights.
• John Savill's Technical Training: Two to three new videos a week on Azure, PowerShell, and DevOps including playlists for certification and Azure Master Classes.
• Azure Customer Architecture and Engineering: Regularly published videos and demos on the design and implementation of Azure landing zones.
• Azure Charts: This visualization shows all the Azure updates made in the last six months. It contains other useful charts and utilities to help you track Azure changes. *
• AzAdvertizer: Release and change tracking on Azure governance capabilities such as Azure Policy, policy initiatives, policy aliases and Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC). *
• Azure Weekly: This newsletter provided by endjin.com includes a summary of the week's top news about Microsoft Azure. It also includes interesting historical content. Subscribe via the Azure Weekly email. *

* These resources are provided by the community and are not officially maintained by Microsoft.