Azure Weekly CW33: Firewall Premium 22 Gbps & MAI-Thinking-1
Azure CW33 2026: the Firewall Premium deny-mode throughput numbers, Markdown for Agents in App Service, and MAI-Thinking-1 in Microsoft Foundry.
Azure Weekly CW32: Trusted Launch by Default & cc_v5 Sunset
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.
Azure Weekly CW28: Chaos Studio Workspaces & SFTP Entra ID
Azure CW28 2026: Chaos Studio Workspaces preview, Site Recovery churn to 500 MB/s, Blob SFTP Entra ID GA, and Entra Backup GA.
Azure Weekly CW24: Azure Boost RDMA & Anthropic Fable 5
Azure CW24 2026: Azure Boost guest RDMA preview, NCv6 GPUs with RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell, GPv1 retirement, and Fable 5 in Foundry.
Azure Weekly CW23: Build 2026 Special
Build 2026 round-up: Cobalt 200 ARM VMs, confidential VM live migration, Container Apps microVM sandboxes, and Foundry IQ.
Azure Weekly CW20-21: Container Apps Express & Linux 4.0
Azure CW20-21 2026: Container Apps Express, Azure Linux 4.0, Azure Files SMB managed identity, and ANF 64 TiB file support.
Azure Weekly CW19: Durable Functions & Elastic SAN on AVS
Azure CW19 2026: Functions consumption durable task scheduler, Elastic SAN on AVS Gen2, and bulk Azure Backup VM restore.
Azure Weekly CW16: NAT Gateway V2 for AKS & Smart Tiering
Azure CW16 2026: Standard V2 NAT Gateway for AKS, Smart Tiering GA for blob and Data Lake, Azure Files granular encryption-in-transit.
Azure Weekly CW15: AKS CNI Expansion & Foundry Local
Azure CW15 2026: AKS CNI overlay CIDR expansion GA, Functions MCP resource triggers GA, ARO H100/H200 GPU support, Foundry Local GA.
Azure Weekly CW14: Ephemeral OS Caching & Cosmos PG Sunset
Azure CW14 2026: VM ephemeral OS disk full caching preview, App Configuration with Front Door, and Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL retirement.
Azure Weekly CW10: Confidential VMs v6 & GPT-5.4
Azure CW10 2026: Intel TDX confidential VMs GA, Azure Firewall draft-and-deploy, Databricks Lakebase, Arc Gateway down to 7 endpoints.
Azure Weekly CW8: PSSD v2 Snapshots & AKS MCP
Azure CW8 2026: Premium SSD v2 instant snapshots, AKS MCP Server preview, node autoprovision encryption, and Azure Functions .NET 10 support.
Azure Weekly CW5: ExpressRoute Scalable Gateway & Passkeys
Azure CW5 2026: ExpressRoute scalable gateway goes GA with autoscaling, new Intel/AMD v7 VM SKUs, and automatic passkey rollout for all Entra tenants.