Azure Update 21st August 2026
John Savill runs through the Azure updates for 21st August 2026.
Overview
This weekly update highlights a set of Azure platform changes and feature announcements across compute, networking, data, developer tooling, and AI.
Topics covered (as listed in the video chapters)
- App Service Managed Instance
- AVS license
- ASR BYON
- VM vCore customization
- Summarized advertisement gateway prefix
- Azure Firewall IPv6 support
- VS Code MSSQL extension: SQL DB provisioning
- MSSQL shortcut configuration
- SQL Formatter in MSSQL extension
- SQL Managed Instance zone redundancy
- Azure Databricks Lakebase: new regions
- Azure Linux in WSL
- DeepSeek-v4-Flash-0731 and NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning in Azure AI Foundry
- Azure Copilot agent access
- SharePoint authoritative sites