Azure Weekly Update - 18th September 2026
John Savill runs through a quick Azure weekly update covering AKS Azure Linux with OS Guard retirement, Azure Red Hat OpenShift hosted control planes, Application Gateway HTTP/3 over QUIC, AVNM high-scale mesh, storage migration over SMB, PostgreSQL skills and MCP, Azure SQL DB soft delete, AVD endpoints, and Azure Payments HSM v2.
Overview
A short Azure-focused update with the following topics:
- AKS: Azure Linux with OS Guard retirement
- Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO): hosted control planes
- Azure Application Gateway: HTTP/3 over QUIC
- Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM): high-scale mesh
- Agentless SMB storage migration
- PostgreSQL: skills and MCP
- Azure SQL Database: logical server soft delete
- Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD): new endpoints for the Windows App
- Azure Payments HSM v2