Azure Update 3rd April 2026
John Savill's Technical Training shares a short weekly roundup covering Azure platform updates across compute, storage, networking integration, database service lifecycle, Event Grid, and a few AI-related items like Azure Speech Neural HD and a newly referenced Nemotron model.
Overview
A weekly Azure update video summarizing platform changes and announcements.
Topics covered (with timestamps)
- 00:10 – New videos
- 02:05 – Azure Red Hat OpenShift new regions
- 02:32 – VM and VMSS full ephemeral OS disk caching
- 04:13 – App Config + AFD integration (Azure App Configuration with Azure Front Door)
- 05:34 – Premium SSDv2 new region
- 06:16 – User delegation SAS for table, file, and queue
- 07:00 – Azure Data Box to Files Provisioned v2
- 07:49 – Azure NetApp Files (ANF) access enhancements
- 08:26 – Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL retirement
- 09:11 – Event Grid updates
- 10:48 – Copilot Cowork
- 11:39 – Azure Speech Neural HD 2.5
- 12:18 – Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B model
- 13:37 – Close
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