Summary of Azure snippets for the week commencing 9th March 2026, grouped by Azure service. Seems to be a slow period for Azure updates at the moment, but I’ve gathered a few useful-looking items for this week.
For all the updates on Azure platform resources and products - Azure updates from Microsoft
GA = Generally Available
Public/Private Preview = as stated
RET = Service retirement
Azure services with highlighted updates this week:
Summary of Azure snippets for the week commencing 2nd February 2026, grouped by Azure service.
For all the updates on Azure platform resources and products - Azure updates from Microsoft
GA = Generally Available
Public/Private Preview = as stated
RET = Service retirement
Azure services with highlighted updates this week:
Deployment safeguards – pod security standard support in AKS (GA) : Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports Kubernetes Pod Security Standards within Deployment Safeguards, enabling centralized management of Baseline, Restricted, and Privileged standards at scale. This capability allows teams to ensure that deployment manifests comply with selected security standards, help technical practitioners strengthen workload security, reduce configuration drift, and simplify the rollout of cluster-wide security controls.
Summary of Azure snippets for the week commencing 12th January 2026, grouped by Azure service.
Welcome to the first post of 2026! Bit of an unplanned hiatus due to busyness, then Christmas and New Year happened. Belated Happy New Year to my reader :-)
With it being the post-Christmas and New Year period, there hasn’t been too much happening in the Azure space lately, but I have spotted a couple of interesting developments in the latest AKS release and with the Power Platform. Also, Ignite took place last November - here’s links to the Book of News and a summary of updates in Azure since I didn’t get a chance to post them earlier on.