Azure Update 16th April 2026
John Savill's Technical Training runs through a short Azure news roundup for 16th April 2026, covering AKS networking/monitoring updates, storage security and tiering changes, retirements, and a handful of new/updated Azure services and capabilities.
Azure Update 16th April 2026
Overview
A quick roundup of Azure updates mentioned in the video.
Timeline / topics covered
- Introduction
- New videos
- StandardV2 NAT Gateway as outbound for AKS
- Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry support for AKS workloads
- Azure Bastion MI for graphical session recording
- ASR NVMe disk controller support
- Azure Batch HBv2/HC/NP retirement
- Azure Files granular encryption-in-transit
- Azure Storage Mover in gov cloud
- Azure File Sync new regions
- Smart Tier for storage
- Minimum billable object size for cooler storage tiers
- Encrypt Premium SSDv2 and Ultra with cross-tenant CMK
- Event Grid Stripe event ingestion
- Azure Managed Grafana Basic SKU retirement
- MAI-Image-2-Efficient
- Close
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