Azure CW13 2026: AKS gets application network mesh, blue-green agent pool upgrades, and network AI agent. SQL DB adds automatic index compaction. Foundry priority processing goes GA. Entra external MFA and tenant governance land.
Azure CW8 2026: Premium SSD v2 instant snapshots, AKS MCP Server preview, node autoprovision encryption, and Azure Functions .NET 10 support.
Azure CW7 2026: Monitor Pipelines preview for pre-ingestion transformation, AKS K8s 1.34 GA, Azure Disk vaulted backups, and Entra source of authority goes GA.
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 AI Foundry.