Azure Weekly Update - 16th October 2026
John Savill shares a short Azure Weekly Update for 16 October 2026, covering a handful of platform changes across resiliency, compute, networking, storage, and Azure’s AI hardware/model announcements.
Overview
Azure Site Recovery (ASR) + Azure Arc
- Mentions ASR Arc support for VMware and physical servers.
Compute
- Mentions VMSS rebalancing (Virtual Machine Scale Sets).
Networking
- Mentions Standard Service Endpoints.
Storage
- Mentions cross-region Azure Files replication.
Security / HSM
- Mentions Azure Cloud HSM hardware audit logging.
AI
- Mentions the MAI-Base-2 foundation model.
- Mentions the Maia 300 inferencing chip.