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 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 CW9 2026: App Gateway WAF Insights preview, Entra-restricted blob SAS tokens, AI Search sensitivity labels, and GitHub Copilot CLI goes GA.
Azure CW5 2026: ExpressRoute scalable gateway goes GA with autoscaling, new Intel/AMD v7 VM SKUs, and automatic passkey rollout for all Entra tenants.
Post-quantum cryptography in Azure: NIST FIPS 203/204/205 standards, harvest-now-decrypt-later threats, and what Azure customers should do today.
PowerShell script to audit TLS versions across Azure subscriptions, scanning 13 service types and generating CSV and HTML compliance reports.
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