John Savill’s Technical Training delivers a concise Azure update for October 31st, 2025, summarizing recent news on Azure Functions, Azure Front Door outages, storage migrations, PostgreSQL, and Azure ML. Key highlights and resource links are provided.

Azure Update - 31st October 2025

Authored by John Savill’s Technical Training, this weekly video offers a practical rundown of recent changes and news across Azure services.

Highlights

  • Azure Front Door (AFD) Incidents
    • Recent status and incident reports published (link).
    • Coverage of AFD WAF CAPTCHA challenges, signed request changes, and a significant outage noted on 10/29.
  • Azure Functions
    • Announcement of Node.js 20 retirement.
    • Overview of zero-downtime deployment procedures.
  • Private Endpoints & Storage
    • Guidance on high-scale private endpoint configurations.
    • Migration from ASM NFS shares to Azure File Shares (AFS).
    • Details on instant access snapshots.
  • PostgreSQL & PgBouncer
    • Update on PgBouncer 1.23.1 and its support within Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server.
  • Azure Machine Learning (ML)
    • Summary of preview feature retirements.

Additional Resources

Community Notes

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