Azure Update — 24th April 2026
John Savill's Technical Training covers a weekly roundup of Azure platform changes and announcements from 24th April 2026.
Full summary based on transcript
Overview
The video is a fast-paced set of weekly updates across Azure compute, Kubernetes, serverless, storage, monitoring, databases, Arc, and a short segment on new AI model releases.
New videos
- The presenter briefly calls out newly published videos on the channel.
Mythos Preview update
- An update related to “Mythos” in preview is mentioned.
AKS updates
- AKS Ubuntu 22.04 retirement
- A retirement timeline/update is called out for AKS nodes using Ubuntu 22.04.
- AKS backup via CLI
- Backup capabilities for AKS are highlighted with a focus on using the Azure CLI.
Azure Functions
- Azure Functions v3 Linux consumption retire
- A retirement notice/update is mentioned for Functions v3 on Linux Consumption.
Storage updates
- Azure NetApp Files (ANF) user and group quota reports
- Reporting improvements for user/group quota usage are called out.
- ANF ransomware protection
- A ransomware protection-related feature/update is mentioned.
- Azure Elastic SAN capacity autoscaling
- Capacity autoscaling support is highlighted for Elastic SAN.
Data ingestion / OLTP
- AMA native OLTP ingestion
- A native OLTP ingestion update is mentioned in the context of AMA.
Monitoring and observability
- Azure Monitor for Arc-enabled Kubernetes / OpenShift
- Monitoring updates are mentioned for Arc-enabled Kubernetes, including OpenShift.
- Application Insights to Entra-integrated auth
- An update is called out around Application Insights moving to or supporting Microsoft Entra ID-integrated authentication.
- Azure Monitor Pipelines
- A new/updated “Pipelines” capability in Azure Monitor is mentioned.
Database updates
- Cosmos DB DDM
- A Cosmos DB update is mentioned related to “DDM”.
- PostgreSQL Flexible Server
- Premium SSD v2 support is highlighted.
- VNet integration to Private Endpoint update is mentioned.
- Logical replication status improvements are mentioned.
- New region availability: PostgreSQL Flexible Server expansion to Denmark East is called out.
- Microsoft Fabric PostgreSQL enhanced mirroring
- An update is mentioned for PostgreSQL mirroring capabilities in Microsoft Fabric.
Azure Arc / SQL
- Azure Arc SQL on Azure VM migration target
- A migration-target update is mentioned for Arc-enabled SQL scenarios on Azure VMs.
AI model releases (non-Azure specific)
- Claude Opus 4.7
- OpenAI GPT-5.5
- OpenAI GPT-image-2
Chapters
- 00:00 Introduction
- 00:10 New videos
- 00:48 Mythos Preview update
- 03:44 AKS Ubuntu 22.04 retirement
- 03:59 AKS backup via CLI
- 04:23 Azure Functions v3 Linux consumption retire
- 04:54 ANF user and group quota reports
- 05:23 ANF ransomware protection
- 06:18 Azure Elastic SAN capacity autoscaling
- 06:47 AMA native OLTP ingestion
- 07:12 Azure Monitor for Arc-enabled K8S OpenShift
- 07:37 App Insights to Entra-integrated auth
- 08:00 Azure Monitor Pipelines
- 09:08 Cosmos DB DDM
- 09:46 PostgreSQL Flexible Premium SSDv2
- 10:22 PostgreSQL Flex vnet-int to PE
- 10:51 PostgreSQL Flex logical repl status
- 11:06 Fabric PostgreSQL enhanced mirroring
- 11:57 PostgreSQL Flexible to Denmark East region
- 12:04 Azure Arc SQL on Azure VM migration target
- 12:24 Claude Opus 4.7
- 12:46 OpenAI GPT 5.5
- 13:07 OpenAI GPT-image-2
- 14:01 Close