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 CW31: APIM AI Gateway & Azure Enclave
Azure CW31 2026: AI Gateway in API Management, Azure Enclave preview, Key Vault symmetric keys, and reservation exchanges ending February 2027.
Azure Weekly CW30: Standard Service Endpoints & AI Telemetry
Azure CW30 2026: standard service endpoint preview, IPv6 on VPN Gateway GA, DDoS custom policies, and a protected table for generative AI telemetry.
Azure Weekly CW29: Passkeys by Default & Edge Actions
Azure CW29 2026: Entra passkeys become the default in September, SMS and voice retire February 2027, plus Front Door edge actions on Hyperlight.
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 CW26: Azure Files Share Management GA
Azure CW26 2026: file share-centric management GA, Confidential Live Migration for Intel TDX VMs, and the Azure Blueprints retirement.
Azure Weekly CW25: Databricks Managed Tables in OneLake
Azure CW25 2026: Databricks Unity Catalog managed tables in OneLake, a VS Code Functions project gallery, and NAT Gateway v2 ICMP.
Azure Weekly CW22: VNet Flow Logs in Sentinel & AVNM
Azure CW22 2026: VNet flow logs connector for Sentinel, Virtual Network Manager with Virtual WAN as hub, and Istio on AKS.
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 CW18: AKS WireGuard & Agent Framework 1.0
Azure CW18 2026: AKS pod traffic encryption with WireGuard, Front Door WAF HTTP DDoS rule set, and Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0.
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 CW12: Foundry Agent Service & Entra Blob SFTP
Azure CW12 2026: Foundry Agent Service GA with native voice, Entra ID for Blob SFTP, WAF DRS 2.2, and standard HDD retirement announced.
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 CW6: VNet Routing & Container Storage
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.
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.
Azure Weekly CW4: NAT Gateway V2 & AKS Pod Security
Azure CW4 2026: Zone-redundant NAT Gateway V2 goes GA, AKS gets pod security safeguards, and user-delegated SAS expands to more storage services.