Azure Weekly Update - 30th October 2026 - Halloween Special
In this Halloween edition, John Savill walks through Azure infrastructure, security, and AI announcements, alongside developer tooling updates from GitHub Universe.
Azure infrastructure and security updates
The Azure portion covers logging, confidential computing, network protection, storage limits, and backup restore:
- 01:16 — Azure Container Apps logging: An update to logging destinations.
- 01:56 — Confidential VMs: A LOSDE update for confidential virtual machines.
- 02:45 — VNet Flow Logs: Filtering for virtual network flow logs.
- 04:01 — Azure Front Door WAF policies: Profile- and route-level web application firewall policies.
- 04:51 — HTTP DDoS protection: An Azure Front Door WAF ruleset for HTTP DDoS protection.
- 05:22 — Storage account quotas: Higher storage account resource quotas.
- 05:42 — Azure Backup: Cross-tenant restore.
AI models and developer tooling
The second part of the update covers model cost management, Azure MCP Server, model announcements, and GitHub news:
- 06:29 — Foundry Claude model cost management: Cost management for Claude models in Azure AI Foundry.
- 06:55 — Azure MCP Server 3.0: An update on version 3.0.
- 07:52 — GPT-6.1 Terra: A model-focused segment.
- 08:40 — MAI-Image-2.6 and 2.6-Flash: Updates on the two image models.
- 09:07 — Microsoft Copilot harness in Foundry: A segment on the Copilot harness.
- 09:47 — GitHub Universe: Updates from the event.