Azure Update 12th June 2026

Name: Azure Update 12th June 2026
Uploaded: 2026-06-12T16:16:22+00:00
Description: John Savill rounds up a week of Azure platform changes and retirements, spanning compute/storage updates, database and identity improvements, monitoring...

Today by John Savill

John Savill shares a weekly Azure news roundup covering a range of service updates, previews, and retirements.

Overview

Compute, networking, and VM platform updates

Azure Boost Guest RDMA
Azure Site Recovery (ASR): Linux NVMe Azure VM support
Premium SSD v2: non-zonal VM support
NCv6

Retirements and lifecycle changes

Azure Batch: legacy VM SKU retirements
Azure VPN Client for Linux (preview): retired
Azure Cosmos DB: Synapse Link retirement

Storage updates

Azure Migrate: Azure Files
Minimum billable object size changes for:
- Cool access tier
- Cold access tier
- Archive access tier
GPv1 and legacy Blob: new account creation blocked

Data services and developer tooling

Azure Managed Redis: Microsoft Entra RBAC for data management
Azure Database for PostgreSQL: maintenance control
PostgreSQL Hub for Azure Developers
Azure SQL Database: Microsoft Entra logins
SQL MCP Server

Monitoring and observability

Azure Monitor: ingestion volume change dashboard

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS): GitHub Copilot Agent Mode
Azure AI Foundry: agent security license changes
Anthropic Claude 5 availability in Azure AI Foundry and GitHub Copilot