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Azure Weekly CW16: NAT Gateway V2 for AKS, Smart Tiering GA & Event Grid Stripe Integration
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 Weekly CW15: AKS CNI Overlay CIDR Expansion, Azure Functions MCP Resources & Foundry Local
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 Weekly CW14: Ephemeral OS Disk Caching, App Config AFD Integration & Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL Retirement
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 Weekly CW13: AKS Application Network, Blue-Green Upgrades & Foundry Priority Processing
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 Weekly CW12: Foundry Agent Service GA, Entra Blob SFTP & Databricks Fabric Federation
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 Weekly CW11: SRE Agent Updates, PostgreSQL IaC GA & Microsoft 365 E7
Azure CW11 2026: SRE Agent gets new capabilities, private AWS S3 to Blob migration, PostgreSQL Flexible Elastic Cluster IaC goes GA, built-in Grafana dashboards, and Microsoft 365 E7 launches.
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