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by Timo Haldi

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Azure Weekly CW20–21: Container Apps Express, Foundry Model Router & Azure Linux 4.0

May 22, 2026 15 min read

Azure CW20 + CW21 2026: Azure Container Apps Express, Azure Virtual Network Manager rule impact analyzer, Azure Files SMB managed identity support, ANF large file support up to 64 TiB, Service Bus Premium four-nines SLA, Service Bus Premium confidential compute in new regions, Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana, codename MDASH vulnerability scanning, Grok 4.3 in Foundry, AKS Application Insights auto-instrumentation, App Configuration scorecards, Functions Flex Consumption per-app TLS certificates, TLS 1.0/1.1 App Service retirement, Front Door WebSocket GA, NSG and UDR limit increases, Network Watcher rule impact analyzer, ExpressRoute/VPN gateway summarized prefixes, site-to-site VPN certificate auth, user-group-specific P2S VPN IP pools, Azure Blob Storage SDK for Rust, Storage Actions mock runs, ANF cache volumes, ANF S3-compatible object REST API, Storage Mover blob-to-blob, Storage Mover scheduling, Azure Files Entra-only identity, Event Grid subscription identifiers and MQTT updates, Cosmos DB LangChain/LangGraph integration, SQL Server on Azure VM new regions, PostgreSQL Flexible token refresh, Foundry role renames, new Foundry Model Router models, and Azure Linux 4.0.

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Azure Weekly CW19: Functions Durable Task Scheduler, Elastic SAN on AVS Gen2 & Realtime GPT Models

May 8, 2026 10 min read

Azure CW19 2026: Azure Functions consumption durable task scheduler, reserved VM size retirements, bulk Azure Backup VM restore, Dl/D/E v7 SKUs on Intel Xeon 6, UK egress data transfer changes, ACS AlternateId cleanup, App Gateway for Containers add-on for AKS Automatic, Elastic SAN on AVS Gen2 private clouds, Elastic SAN single volume snapshots, ANF backup enabled by default, Premium SSD v2 in all three Japan West AZs, Cosmos DB spherical quantization, Cosmos DB shell with MCP server, SQL MI Business Critical right-size memory, GPT-chat-latest in Foundry, Document Intelligence v3 retirement, and three new realtime GPT models.

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Azure Weekly CW18: AKS Pod Encryption with WireGuard, Foundry Managed Memory & Agent Framework 1.0

May 1, 2026 11 min read

Azure CW18 2026: AKS pod traffic encryption with WireGuard, AKS Container Network Insights agent, Azure Red Hat OpenShift in Austria East, Azure Functions Java 25 support, Front Door WAF HTTP DDoS rule set, Azure Virtual Network Manager cross-region IP pools, Elastic SAN CRC32C checksums, Elastic SAN Windows extension, Azure Backup for Elastic SAN, Blob user-delegated SAS prefix scoping, PostgreSQL cascading read replicas, Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0, Foundry Boundary hosted agents, Foundry Toolkit for VS Code, BYO AI gateway, Foundry Managed Memory, and Prompt Flow retirement.

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Azure Weekly CW17: ANF Ransomware Protection GA, Cosmos DB Dynamic Data Masking & Claude Opus 4.7

April 24, 2026 11 min read

Azure CW17 2026: AKS Ubuntu 22.04 retirement, AKS backup via CLI, Azure Functions v3 Linux Consumption retirement, ANF user/group quota reports, ANF ransomware protection, Elastic SAN capacity autoscaling, Azure Monitor Agent OTLP ingestion, Azure Monitor for Arc Kubernetes, App Insights Entra auth, Azure Monitor Pipelines, Cosmos DB dynamic data masking, PostgreSQL Premium SSDv2, VNet to private endpoint migration, Fabric mirroring for JSON/JSONB, Claude Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5 and GPT-Image-2.

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