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Azure CW27 2026: Claude Sonnet 5 GA in Microsoft Foundry, client-side blob integrity (CRC64-NVME) GA, VM instant application-consistent restore points, Storage Mover GCS source preview, Az.PostgreSqlFlexibleServer module, and the Quantum Safe Program pulled to 2029.
Azure CW26 2026: file share-centric management (Microsoft.FileShares) GA, Confidential Live Migration for Intel TDX VMs, Application Gateway for Containers inference gateway, ANF migration assistant GA, Azure Blueprints retirement, and AVS AV36 node retirement.
Azure CW25 2026: Azure Databricks Unity Catalog managed tables in OneLake, new VS Code Functions Create Project gallery (preview), Azure Migrate GitHub Copilot integration, NAT Gateway v2 ICMP (preview), ANF NFS nconnect for AVS, and Log Analytics summary rules.
Azure CW24 2026: Azure Boost guest RDMA on VMs (preview), Azure Site Recovery for Linux NVMe VMs, Premium SSD v2 on non-zonal VMs, NCv6 GPU SKUs with Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell, Azure Batch legacy VM SKU retirements, Azure VPN Client for Linux retirement, Azure Migrate for SMB/NFS file shares to Azure Files, minimum billable object size delay, GPv1 and Legacy Blob retirement, Azure Managed Redis Entra RBAC for data, Azure PostgreSQL maintenance control GA, PostgreSQL Hub for developers, SSMS GitHub Copilot agent mode, Cosmos DB Synapse Link retirement, Azure SQL DB Entra logins GA, SQL MCP server, Azure Monitor ingestion volume change dashboard, Foundry agent security license shift to Agent 365, and Anthropic Fable 5 in Foundry and GitHub Copilot.
Build 2026 round-up — Cobalt 200 ARM VMs, Lasv5/Laosv5 SKUs, Azure Infrastructure Resiliency Manager, confidential VM live migration, Azure Functions on consumption with durable agents, Logic Apps knowledge-as-a-service and automation SKU, AKS Anyscale Ray, Container Apps sandboxes with microVM isolation, APIM data-plane MCP server, Unified Model API, Azure Horizon DB Postgres fork, Cosmos DB semantic reranker and distributed transactions, Foundry IQ knowledge sources, ASSERT and ACS agent governance, Microsoft Execution Container (MXC), Microsoft scouts and autopilots, Work IQ APIs, Web IQ, Majorana 2, MDASH multi-agent vulnerability scanning, and a wave of new models including Claude Opus 4.8, MAI-Thinking-1, Alon 1.0 and MAI-Code-1-Flash.
May 2026 AI update: Claude Opus 4.8 across Foundry, Copilot and GitHub Copilot, OpenAI GPT-5.5 Instant and Thinking, three new GPT realtime models, xAI Grok 4.3, Deepseek V4 / V4 Pro and Kimi 2.6 in Foundry via Fireworks, Cohere Command A+ and new image models, MAI-Image-2-Efficient, Foundry trace-based evaluations for external and hosted agents, GPT-5 reinforcement fine-tuning gated GA, Foundry managed virtual networks GA, MagenticLite, MagenticBrain and Fara 1.5 open agentic stack, Foundry Local 1.1 and 1.2, Foundry IQ knowledge bases, Copilot Studio computer-using agents and new workflow experience, M365 Copilot redesign, GitHub Copilot Opus 4.8 and Gemini 3.5 Flash GA, GitHub Copilot CLI remote control, and enterprise model rules.
Azure CW22 2026: Virtual network flow logs connector for Microsoft Sentinel, Azure Virtual Network Manager integration with Virtual WAN as a hub, App Gateway for Containers integration with ISTIO service mesh on AKS, and Claude Opus 4.8 in Microsoft Foundry — a calm pre-Build week with networking-heavy updates.
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