Azure CW28 2026: Chaos Studio Workspaces public preview, Site Recovery churn to 500 MB/s (preview), Blob SFTP Entra ID GA, Entra Backup and Recovery GA, Log Analytics export jobs, Event Hubs NSP, and WAF exceptions.
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 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.
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.
Azure CW18 2026: AKS pod traffic encryption with WireGuard, AKS Container Network Insights agent, Azure Red Hat OpenShift in Austria East, Azure Functions Java 25 support, Front Door WAF HTTP DDoS rule set, Azure Virtual Network Manager cross-region IP pools, Elastic SAN CRC32C checksums, Elastic SAN Windows extension, Azure Backup for Elastic SAN, Blob user-delegated SAS prefix scoping, PostgreSQL cascading read replicas, Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0, Foundry Boundary hosted agents, Foundry Toolkit for VS Code, BYO AI gateway, Foundry Managed Memory, and Prompt Flow retirement.
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.
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.
Azure CW14 2026: VM ephemeral OS disk full caching in preview, App Configuration gets Azure Front Door integration for millions of clients, user delegation SAS expands to tables/files/queues, Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL retirement announced, Event Grid MQTT enhancements, and Copilot Cowork lands in Frontier.
Azure CW12 2026: Foundry Agent Service goes GA with native voice, Entra ID for Blob SFTP access, WAF DRS 2.2, Databricks-to-Fabric federation, Fabric IQ data agents, and standard HDD retirement announced.
Azure CW10 2026: Intel TDX confidential VMs go GA, Azure Firewall draft-and-deploy, Databricks Lakebase, Arc Gateway reduces endpoints to 7, and a flood of new AI models.
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.
Azure CW5 2026: ExpressRoute scalable gateway goes GA with autoscaling, new Intel/AMD v7 VM SKUs, and automatic passkey rollout for all Entra tenants.
Azure CW4 2026: Zone-redundant NAT Gateway V2 goes GA, AKS gets pod security safeguards, and user-delegated SAS expands to more storage services.