Environment management capabilities

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The new and improved Power Platform admin center is now generally available. We're currently updating the documentation to reflect these changes, so check back to ensure that you're getting the latest updates.

The Managed Environments concept has been reimagined in the new and improved Power Platform admin center. Environment management, an offering of premium capabilities that allow admins to manage Power Platform at scale with more control, less effort, and more insights is now available.

Environment management provides enhanced security, governance, and operations features for environments that have opted in for the capabilities. Environment management delivers advanced protection, greater visibility, and operational excellence. This makes it easier for administrators to manage their environments at scale while providing them with peace of mind and granular control across every environment covered by this feature set.

The environment management offering includes the following capabilities:

Managed security

In today's AI-driven world, safeguarding your enterprise data and business processes is more critical than ever. Managed security provides comprehensive solutions to protect your data from threats, control access, prevent data exfiltration, and gain visibility into your security posture. It also helps assess risks and ensures compliance with various regulations, making it a robust tool for today's cybersecurity challenges.

Managed security includes:

• Security posture management
• Data protection and privacy
• Identity and access management
• Threat protection
• Compliance

Managed governance

Managed governance in the Power Platform provides a structured framework to ensure that environments are used in compliance with organizational policies and regulatory requirements. It helps organizations maintain control over their data, optimize resource usage, and ensure that all activities within the platform are transparent and accountable. By implementing managed governance, organizations can effectively manage their environments at scale, develop strategic approaches to environment usage, respond proactively to governance issues, gain full visibility into their operations, and manage capacity and costs efficiently.

Managed governance includes:

• Management at scale
• Environment strategy
• Reactive governance
• Full visibility
• Capacity and cost management

Managed operations

Managed operations is a suite of capabilities to empower organizations of all sizes to build, deploy, and operate their most critical workloads. Built with both existing and emerging AI-driven solutions in mind, these capabilities ensure stability and minimize disruption while maximizing the productivity of operations teams.

Managed operations includes:

• Application lifecycle management
• Observability
• Data recovery and mobility
• Quality checker
• Continuous deployment

Managed availability

Managed availability provides robust capabilities to ensure continuous uptime, seamless failover, and enterprise-grade resilience for mission-critical applications and AI workloads. Built on Microsoft Azure, these features safeguard businesses against failures, outages, and disruptions, ensuring high availability without compromising performance.

Managed availability includes:

• Increased resiliency with Azure availability zones
• Automated backups and self-serve disaster recovery