Azure Update 22nd May 2026

John Savill runs through the weekly Azure update for 22nd May 2026, covering a wide set of platform changes across AKS, Functions, App Service, networking, storage, Event Grid, databases, and Azure AI Foundry.

Overview

This weekly update highlights recent Azure changes and announcements across compute, networking, storage, data, and AI.

Compute and app platform

• AKS: Application Insights auto-instrumentation update.
• Azure Functions: Flex Consumption TLS certificate update.
• Azure App Service: TLS 1.0 and 1.1 retirement.
• Azure Front Door: WebSocket update.

Configuration and governance

• Azure App Configuration: scorecards update.

Networking

• NSG and UDR: limit updates.
• Azure Network Watcher: rule impact analyzer update.
• Gateway: summarized prefixes update.
• Site-to-site VPN: certificate authentication update.
• Point-to-site VPN: user group specific IP pools update.

Storage

• Azure Blob Storage: SDK for Rust update.
• Azure Storage Actions: mock runs update.
• Azure NetApp Files (ANF): cache volumes update.
• Azure NetApp Files (ANF): object REST API update.
• Azure Storage Mover: blob-to-blob update.
• Azure Storage Mover: schedule update.
• Azure Files: Entra-only identity update.

Messaging and events

• Azure Event Grid: subscription identifiers update.
• Azure Event Grid: additional updates.

Databases and data platform

• Azure Cosmos DB: LangChain and LangGraph integration.
• SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines: new regions.
• Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server: token refresh update.

AI platform

• Azure AI Foundry: role updates.
• Azure AI Foundry Model Router: new models.

OS and platform

• Azure Linux 4.0 update.