Azure Weekly Update - 4th September 2026
John Savill runs through the Azure Weekly Update for 4th September 2026, covering a set of platform changes across compute, AKS, networking, monitoring, security, and Azure AI Foundry.
Overview
This weekly update is a rapid-fire roundup of Azure announcements and feature updates.
Compute and resiliency
- Azure VM Image Builder availability update
- Per-disk resiliency update
AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service)
- AKS Linux confidential VMs
- AKS artifact streaming
- AKS Windows Server 2025 support
- AKS CSI Files driver workload identity
Containers and security
- Azure Container Apps (ACA) integration/update related to Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Disaster recovery and storage
- Azure Site Recovery (ASR) Linux NVMe support
Networking and edge
- Multicloud interconnect update
- Azure Firewall SNAT route learning update
- Azure Front Door (AFD) WAF profile and route-level WAF policy association
- Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM) IPAM update for sovereign clouds
Monitoring and logs
- Azure Monitor Logs auxiliary table support for standard Azure tables
- Azure Monitor Logs auxiliary availability in sovereign clouds
- Copilot observability agent: new log type support
Data and marketplace
- Azure Database for MySQL reader endpoint
- Microsoft Marketplace purchase order mapping
Azure AI Foundry
- GPT-6 Astra in Foundry
- MAI-Transcribe-2 in Foundry
Links from the description
- Charity event: https://give.curechildhoodcancer.org/fundraiser/7465401
- Learning path: https://learn.onboardtoazure.com
- Certification materials: https://github.com/johnthebrit/CertificationMaterials
- Weekly Azure Update playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nEv7jSfOVmQGRp9wAoAM0Ks
- Azure Master Class playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nGccbp8VSpAozu3w9xSQJoY
- DevOps Master Class playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nFr8RzQ4GIxUEznpNR53ERq
- PowerShell Master Class playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nFq_hR7FcMYg32xsSAObuq8
- Certification cram playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nHz2qfLvPsAz9CnnXofhmcA
- Mentoring playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nGHxNkSWB0PjzZHwZ0BkXZZ
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