Weekly Azure round-ups: what shipped, what reached GA, what is being retired, and the data-residency caveats that matter for Swiss and EU workloads.https://timohaldi.ch/en-ushttps://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw33/https://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw33/Azure CW33 2026: the Firewall Premium deny-mode throughput numbers, Markdown for Agents in App Service, and MAI-Thinking-1 in Microsoft Foundry.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTTimo Haldihttps://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw32/https://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw32/Azure CW32 2026: Trusted Launch on by default for new Gen2 VMs, the cc_v5 confidential VM retirement on September 1st, and Firewall explicit proxy GA.Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTTimo Haldihttps://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw31/https://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw31/Azure CW31 2026: AI Gateway in API Management, Azure Enclave preview, Key Vault symmetric keys, and reservation exchanges ending February 2027.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTTimo Haldihttps://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw30/https://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw30/Azure CW30 2026: standard service endpoint preview, IPv6 on VPN Gateway GA, DDoS custom policies, and a protected table for generative AI telemetry.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTTimo Haldihttps://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw29/https://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw29/Azure CW29 2026: Entra passkeys become the default in September, SMS and voice retire February 2027, plus Front Door edge actions on Hyperlight.Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTTimo Haldihttps://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw28/https://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw28/Azure CW28 2026: Chaos Studio Workspaces preview, Site Recovery churn to 500 MB/s, Blob SFTP Entra ID GA, and Entra Backup GA.Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTTimo Haldihttps://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw27/https://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw27/Azure CW27 2026: Claude Sonnet 5 GA in Microsoft Foundry, and why its data residency still blocks regulated Swiss workloads.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTTimo Haldihttps://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw26/https://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw26/Azure CW26 2026: file share-centric management GA, Confidential Live Migration for Intel TDX VMs, and the Azure Blueprints retirement.Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTTimo Haldihttps://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw25/https://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw25/Azure CW25 2026: Databricks Unity Catalog managed tables in OneLake, a VS Code Functions project gallery, and NAT Gateway v2 ICMP.Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTTimo Haldihttps://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw24/https://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw24/Azure CW24 2026: Azure Boost guest RDMA preview, NCv6 GPUs with RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell, GPv1 retirement, and Fable 5 in Foundry.Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTTimo Haldihttps://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw23-build/https://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw23-build/Build 2026 round-up: Cobalt 200 ARM VMs, confidential VM live migration, Container Apps microVM sandboxes, and Foundry IQ.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTTimo Haldihttps://timohaldi.ch/blog/microsoft-ai-monthly-2026-05/https://timohaldi.ch/blog/microsoft-ai-monthly-2026-05/May 2026 AI round-up: Claude Opus 4.8 across Foundry and Copilot, GPT-5.5, Grok 4.3, and Foundry managed virtual networks GA.Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTTimo Haldihttps://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw22/https://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw22/Azure CW22 2026: VNet flow logs connector for Sentinel, Virtual Network Manager with Virtual WAN as hub, and Istio on AKS.Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTTimo Haldihttps://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw20-cw21/https://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw20-cw21/Azure CW20-21 2026: Container Apps Express, Azure Linux 4.0, Azure Files SMB managed identity, and ANF 64 TiB file support.Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTTimo Haldihttps://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw19/https://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw19/Azure CW19 2026: Functions consumption durable task scheduler, Elastic SAN on AVS Gen2, and bulk Azure Backup VM restore.Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTTimo Haldihttps://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw18/https://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw18/Azure CW18 2026: AKS pod traffic encryption with WireGuard, Front Door WAF HTTP DDoS rule set, and Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0.Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTTimo Haldihttps://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw17/https://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw17/Azure CW17 2026: AKS Ubuntu 22.04 retirement, ANF ransomware protection, Elastic SAN autoscaling, Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 in Foundry.Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTTimo Haldihttps://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw16/https://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw16/Azure CW16 2026: Standard V2 NAT Gateway for AKS, Smart Tiering GA for blob and Data Lake, Azure Files granular encryption-in-transit.Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTTimo Haldihttps://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw15/https://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw15/Azure CW15 2026: AKS CNI overlay CIDR expansion GA, Functions MCP resource triggers GA, ARO H100/H200 GPU support, Foundry Local GA.Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTTimo Haldihttps://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw14/https://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw14/Azure CW14 2026: VM ephemeral OS disk full caching preview, App Configuration with Front Door, and Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL retirement.Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTTimo Haldihttps://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw13/https://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw13/Azure CW13 2026: AKS application network mesh, blue-green agent pool upgrades, SQL DB automatic index compaction, and Entra external MFA.Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTTimo Haldihttps://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw12/https://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw12/Azure CW12 2026: Foundry Agent Service GA with native voice, Entra ID for Blob SFTP, WAF DRS 2.2, and standard HDD retirement announced.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTTimo Haldihttps://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw11/https://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw11/Azure CW11 2026: SRE Agent gains new capabilities, private AWS S3 to Blob migration, PostgreSQL Elastic Cluster IaC GA, Grafana dashboards.Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTTimo Haldihttps://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw10/https://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw10/Azure CW10 2026: Intel TDX confidential VMs GA, Azure Firewall draft-and-deploy, Databricks Lakebase, Arc Gateway down to 7 endpoints.Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTTimo Haldihttps://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw09/https://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw09/Azure CW9 2026: App Gateway WAF Insights preview, Entra-restricted blob SAS tokens, AI Search sensitivity labels, and GitHub Copilot CLI goes GA.Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTTimo Haldihttps://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw08/https://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw08/Azure CW8 2026: Premium SSD v2 instant snapshots, AKS MCP Server preview, node autoprovision encryption, and Azure Functions .NET 10 support.Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTTimo Haldihttps://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw07/https://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw07/Azure CW7 2026: Monitor Pipelines preview, AKS Kubernetes 1.34 GA, Azure Disk vaulted backups, and Entra source of authority goes GA.Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTTimo Haldihttps://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw06/https://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw06/Azure CW6 2026: VNet routing appliance preview, Container Storage 2.1 with Elastic SAN, App Gateway DRS 2.2, and Claude Opus 4.6 in Microsoft Foundry.Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTTimo Haldihttps://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw05/https://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw05/Azure CW5 2026: ExpressRoute scalable gateway goes GA with autoscaling, new Intel/AMD v7 VM SKUs, and automatic passkey rollout for all Entra tenants.Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTTimo Haldihttps://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw04/https://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw04/Azure CW4 2026: Zone-redundant NAT Gateway V2 goes GA, AKS gets pod security safeguards, and user-delegated SAS expands to more storage services.Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTTimo Haldihttps://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw03/https://timohaldi.ch/blog/azure-weekly-2026-cw03/Azure CW3 2026: AKS gets Ubuntu 24.04 GA, Cosmos DB adds private networking for Fabric mirroring, and GPT-5.2-Codex brings 400k token context.Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTTimo Haldi