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Azure Weekly CW24: Azure Boost RDMA & Anthropic Fable 5

Azure Weekly CW24: Azure Boost RDMA & Anthropic Fable 5

9 min read

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.

AzureComputeStorageDatabaseAIWeekly Update
Azure Weekly CW23: Build 2026 Special

Azure Weekly CW23: Build 2026 Special

17 min read

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.

AzureBuild 2026AIComputeDatabaseFoundryWeekly Update
Azure Weekly CW20-21: Container Apps Express & Azure Linux 4.0

Azure Weekly CW20-21: Container Apps Express & Azure Linux 4.0

14 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.

AzureComputeNetworkingStorageDatabaseAIWeekly Update
Azure Weekly CW19: Durable Functions & Elastic SAN on AVS

Azure Weekly CW19: Durable Functions & Elastic SAN on AVS

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.

AzureComputeStorageDatabaseAIWeekly Update
Azure Weekly CW16: NAT Gateway V2 for AKS & Smart Tiering

Azure Weekly CW16: NAT Gateway V2 for AKS & Smart Tiering

8 min read

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 Expansion & Foundry Local

Azure Weekly CW15: AKS CNI Expansion & Foundry Local

7 min read

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