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 CW27: Claude Sonnet 5 GA in Foundry
Azure CW27 2026: Claude Sonnet 5 GA in Microsoft Foundry, and why its data residency still blocks regulated Swiss workloads.
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 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 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 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 CW17: ANF Ransomware & Claude Opus 4.7
Azure CW17 2026: AKS Ubuntu 22.04 retirement, ANF ransomware protection, Elastic SAN autoscaling, Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 in Foundry.
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 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 CW11: SRE Agent & PostgreSQL IaC
Azure CW11 2026: SRE Agent gains new capabilities, private AWS S3 to Blob migration, PostgreSQL Elastic Cluster IaC GA, Grafana dashboards.
Azure Weekly CW9: WAF Insights & Copilot CLI
Azure CW9 2026: App Gateway WAF Insights preview, Entra-restricted blob SAS tokens, AI Search sensitivity labels, and GitHub Copilot CLI goes GA.
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 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.