Azure Weekly Update - 24th October 2026
John Savill presents a roundup of Azure and AI service changes for the week of 24 October 2026. The video covers infrastructure updates alongside sovereign cloud developments, Entra, and AI agent capabilities.
Networking and security
- 00:50 — Traffic Manager and Azure DNS: Integration between Traffic Manager and Azure DNS.
- 01:47 — Application Gateway keyless TLS: Keyless TLS with Azure Key Vault Managed HSM.
- 02:13 — Azure Front Door WAF: Service tag matching for Web Application Firewall rules.
- 02:53 — Virtual network peering: Disabling a virtual network peering route.
Backup, analytics, and monitoring
- 04:03 — Azure Backup: VM item-level recovery.
- 04:40 — Azure Databricks: Private network gateway updates.
- 05:40 — Azure Monitor: Workspace usage insights.
- 05:57 — Azure Monitor: Advanced platform metrics.
Database and storage
- 06:25 — Azure Cosmos DB: Safe key rotation.
- 06:47 — Azure Data Lake Storage: ABFS vectored read support.
Sovereign cloud, identity, and AI
- 07:54 — Sovereign updates: Developments in sovereign cloud.
- 10:00 — Project Perception: Project updates.
- 12:36 — Microsoft Entra: CYOT.
- 13:05 — OpenAI: Decisions API.
- 14:10 — Copilot Studio: Agent ID.