What's new in Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty

This article provides details about the latest updates to Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty. To see a comprehensive list of released features, see the following articles:

October 2024

Capabilities	Documentation
Sovereign Landing Zone: Support for deploying Sovereign Landing Zone using Terraform	Deploy and configure a Sovereign Landing Zone
Policy portfolio: New initiatives and features to help regulated industries in their compliance requirements	Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty policy portfolio
Information Assistant agent template: Includes secure mode, which helps organizations meet their sovereignty objectives and address data protection and privacy issues. Furthermore, the template is compatible with the SLZ Online management group scope using the secure mode deployment configuration.	Information Assistant agent template

September 2024

Capabilities	Documentation
Reference architecture on Azure Databricks in Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty	Overview of Azure Databricks configurations

July 2024

Capabilities	Documentation
Sovereign Landing Zone: More configurability and reuse of existing networking resources during deployment (NSGs, Route Tables, and Azure Firewall Policies)	SLZ concepts
Policy Baseline: Improved VM sovereignty posture by introducing Trusted Launch policies	Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty policy portfolio
Policy Portfolio: Spain Esquema Nacional de Seguridad (ENS) and New Zealand Informational Security Manual (IMS) as Azure built-in policy sets	Regulatory compliance policy initiatives
Drift Analyzer and assessment tools (preview): Ability for a user to save reports locally and view resources by location, including a map view	Resource Locations

April 2024

Capabilities	Documentation
Built-in Sovereign Baseline Policy Initiative for Sovereign Landing Zone (SLZ)	Sovereign Baseline Policy Initiative SLZ release notes
Enhanced Sovereignty policy portfolio	Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty policy portfolio
New landing zone lifecycle management tools (preview)	Landing zone lifecycle management tools (preview)
Guidance and guardrails on configuring Dataverse and Power Platform environments for enhanced sovereignty	Data sovereignty in Dataverse and Power Platform environments
Guidance and reference architecture on sovereign AI and LLM configurations (preview)	Overview of AI and LLM configurations in Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty (preview)