Azure Update 15th May 2026
John Savill runs through the 15 May 2026 Azure update, covering a set of new and updated services across networking, storage, messaging, monitoring, and Azure AI Foundry.
Overview
This weekly update highlights a set of Azure announcements and feature changes, including:
- Azure Container Apps: ACA Express
- Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM): rule impact analyzer
- Azure Files: SMB Multichannel (MI) support
- Azure NetApp Files (ANF): large file support
- Azure Service Bus Premium:
- AZ 4 9s (99.99%) SLA
- confidential compute support
- Azure Monitor: dashboards with Grafana
- Codename MDASH
- Azure AI Foundry: Grok 4.3 in Foundry
Chapters (from the video description)
- 00:00 - Introduction
- 00:09 - New videos
- 01:07 - ACA Express
- 02:28 - AVNM rule impact analyzer
- 03:15 - Azure Files SMB MI support
- 04:21 - ANF large file support
- 04:42 - Azure Service Bus Premium with AZ 4 9s SLA
- 04:57 - Azure Service Bus Premium confidential compute
- 05:42 - Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana
- 06:10 - Codename MDASH
- 07:18 - Grok 4.3 in Foundry
- 07:56 - Close
Links
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- Certification materials: https://github.com/johnthebrit/CertificationMaterials
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