Azure Update 3rd July 2026
John Savill shares a short weekly roundup of Azure changes and announcements from 3rd July 2026, including VM restore point improvements, new blob integrity capabilities, storage migration updates, PostgreSQL tooling, Azure AI Foundry news (including Claude models), GitHub Copilot model updates, and quantum-safe security items.
Overview
This update covers a set of quick Azure platform and tooling announcements, including:
- VM instant application-consistent restore points
- New client-side blob integrity
- ASM migration from Google Cloud Storage (GCS)
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL: new PowerShell module
- Azure AI Foundry updates (Foundry Toolboxes, Claude on Azure, Claude Sonnet 5)
- GitHub Copilot: Kimi K2.7 availability
- Quantum safe program acceleration
- Document PII “NextGen Playground”