Azure Weekly Update - 2nd October 2026
John Savill runs through the Azure Weekly Update for 2nd October 2026.
Overview
New videos
- The update opens with a quick mention of newly published videos on the channel.
Retirements and deprecations
- Azure IoT Central retirement
- Microsoft HPC Pack retirement
- Azure VM SKU retirements
- D[s]v3, E[s]v3, DC[d]sv3, NVv3/4
- Azure Container Apps (ACA) Function v1 hosting retirement
Compute and containers
- VM Scale Sets (VMSS) automatic zone placement
- New VM families
- Lasv5 and Laosv5
- AKS Ubuntu 26.04
Storage
- Elastic SAN: Azure Backup support
- Azure NetApp Files (ANF)
- SMB Microsoft Entra Kerberos support
- Cool access
- Large volume breakthrough mode
Databases and data platform
- HorizonDB PostgreSQL 18
- PostgreSQL LTRv2
- PostgreSQL cross-tenant CMK
- PostgreSQL Ultra Disk
- MySQL reader endpoint
- Azure SQL general updates
- Azure SQL Dev Hub
- Azure SQL Database vectors
- Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Serverless auto pause/resume
- SQL agent skills
- SQL Formatter
- SQL Server on Azure Local
- SQL on Azure Linux VM deployment update
Hybrid, migration, and regions
- Azure Arc to Azure migration
- Azure Extended Zones: Luxembourg
AI model availability
- GPT-6.1 Sol and Sonnet 5.5 available