Azure Update 6th June 2026 - BUILD SPECIAL
John Savill runs through a Build-special weekly Azure update, covering a wide set of platform announcements across compute, containers, integration, monitoring, databases, Fabric/Databricks, and Azure AI Foundry—plus security-focused items like confidential computing and Purview agent integrations.
Overview
This video is a rapid-fire roundup of Azure and Microsoft Build-related announcements and status changes (Preview/GA) across core Azure infrastructure, app platform services, data services, and Azure AI Foundry.
Compute, OS, and resiliency
- Cobalt 200 ARM VMs (Preview)
- Lasv5 and Laosv5 VM SKUs (Preview)
- Azure Linux 4 (Preview)
- VM Scale Sets (VMSS) updates
- Azure Infrastructure Resiliency Manager (Preview)
- Confidential TDX VM live migration (Preview)
- Azure Site Recovery (ASR) premium plus support (GA)
App platform and integration
- Azure Functions updates
- Azure Logic Apps updates
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) updates
- Azure Container Apps updates
- Azure API Management updates
- Azure API Center (GA)
Monitoring
- Azure Monitor updates
Data and analytics
- Microsoft Fabric “Rayfin” (Preview)
- Azure HorizonDB (Preview)
- Azure Cosmos DB updates
- SQL Server in VM snapshot backup (Preview)
- Azure Databricks branch (Preview)
- Oracle to PostgreSQL schema conversion (GA)
- PostgreSQL updates (Preview)
- MySQL updates (GA)
- Microsoft SQL updates
- Azure DocumentDB updates (GA)
- Azure Confidential Clean Room multiparty analytics (Preview)
Azure AI Foundry and AI services
- Foundry IQ and Azure AI Search updates
- Azure AI Search new gen AI integration (GA)
- Agent governance with ASSERT and ACS
- Agent A2A (Preview)
- Foundry guided guardrails (Preview)
- Foundry tracing and evaluation updates
- Agent service voice live integration (GA)
- Purview agent integrations (Preview)
- Foundry Toolbox and Memory
- Foundry VS Code extension (GA)
- Azure AI Translator updates (GA)
- Azure AI Speech LLM API (GA)
- Custom Avatar and Custom Video in Foundry (GA)
- Content Understanding in Foundry portal (Preview)
- Foundry Global PTU reservations (GA)
- PII playgrounds (Preview)
- Model announcements mentioned: Alon-1.0 Instruct, Alon-1.0 Plan, MAI-Thinking-1, MAI-Image-2.5 (Flash variant), MAI-Transcribe-1.5, MAI-Voice-2 (Flash variant coming soon), MAI-Code-1-Flash
Other items called out
- Microsoft Execution Container (MXC)
- Majorana 2
- MDASH
- Intelligent terminal (Preview)
- Work IQ APIs
- Web IQ
- Microsoft Scout (“the first Autopilot”)
- Azure Event Grid MQTT v5 sub identifier (GA)
- Publish to Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot (June GA)