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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

AzureStorageDatabaseMonitoringAIWeekly Update
Azure Weekly CW16: NAT Gateway V2 for AKS, Smart Tiering GA & Event Grid Stripe Integration

Azure Weekly CW16: NAT Gateway V2 for AKS, Smart Tiering GA & Event Grid Stripe Integration

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Azure CW16 2026: Standard V2 NAT Gateway for AKS outbound, Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry for AKS workloads, Azure Bastion managed identity for session recording, Azure Files granular encryption-in-transit, Smart Tiering GA for blob and Data Lake, minimum billable object size for cooler tiers, cross-tenant CMK for Premium SSDv2/Ultra, Event Grid Stripe event ingestion, Azure Managed Grafana Basic SKU retirement, SFTP with Entra ID, and MAI-Image-2-Efficient.

AzureComputeStorageNetworkingAIWeekly Update
Azure Weekly CW15: AKS CNI Overlay CIDR Expansion, Azure Functions MCP Resources & Foundry Local

Azure Weekly CW15: AKS CNI Overlay CIDR Expansion, Azure Functions MCP Resources & Foundry Local

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Azure CW15 2026: AKS CNI overlay CIDR expansion GA, Azure Functions MCP resource triggers GA, AKS HTTP proxy disable GA, AKS observability improvements GA, Azure Red Hat OpenShift H100/H200 GPU support, Network Watcher rule impact analysis preview, Service Bus NSP support, Azure Migrate Azure Files assessment, PostgreSQL maintenance notification consolidation, PgBouncer 1.25.1, new MAI speech and image models, Grok 4.2, and Foundry Local GA.

AzureComputeNetworkingDatabaseAIWeekly Update

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