Azure Weekly Update - 9th October 2026

John Savill runs through the Azure Weekly Update for 9th October 2026, covering a set of platform changes and retirements across AKS, App Service, developer environments, networking/WAF, API Management, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and Fabric/OneLake, plus a security-focused note on Always Encrypted with Intel SGX enclaves.

Overview

A weekly roundup of Azure platform updates, including AKS items, App Service Java retirements, retirements for developer environment services, WAF/networking changes, API Management integration, database updates for PostgreSQL and SQL Server, Fabric/OneLake discovery improvements, and a retirement notice related to Azure SQL Database Always Encrypted with Intel SGX enclaves.

Topics covered (from the video chapters)

AKS

• AKS bare metal on Ubuntu
• AKS Anyscale
• AKS NAT Gateway standardv2 default

App Service

• App Service Java 8, 11 and 17 retirement

Retirements

• ADE retirement
• Microsoft Dev Box retirement

Networking and WAF

• Application Gateway WAF IPv6
• WAF exceptions

API Management

• API Management and Microsoft 365 integration

PostgreSQL

• PostgreSQL Flexible Server in East US 3
• PostgreSQL Elastic major version upgrades
• PostgreSQL Flexible & Elastic Azure Backup support v2

SQL Server

• Enabling the bulkadmin server role for SQL Server on Linux
• SQL Server on Azure VM in Azure Blue

Fabric / OneLake

• OneLake catalog table discovery

Azure SQL Database security

• Azure SQL Database Always Encrypted with Intel SGX enclaves retirement

Other

• Azure HorizonDB additional regions
• MAI Code 1.1 Flash local