Azure Update 8th May 2026
John Savill runs through the Azure updates for 8th May 2026, covering changes across compute, storage, Kubernetes, databases, and Azure AI services.
Overview
Compute and platform updates
- Azure Functions: consumption plan durable task scheduler.
- Azure Reserved VM size retirements.
- UK egress datacenter changes.
Backup and restore
- Bulk Azure Backup VM restore.
Kubernetes and networking
- App Gateway for Containers add-on for AKS: Automatic.
Storage
- Elastic SAN: AVS Gen2 private cloud.
- Elastic SAN: single volume snapshot.
- ANF backup enabled by default.
- Premium SSD v2 available in 3 Availability Zones in Japan West.
Databases
- Cosmos DB: spherical quantization.
- Cosmos DB: shell.
- SQL Managed Instance (Business Critical): right-size memory.
Azure AI
- Azure AI Foundry:
GPT-chat-latest. - GPT real-time models.
- Azure Document Intelligence: v3 API retirement.