--- title: Azure Weekly Update - 2nd October 2026 | daily.dev description: A weekly roundup of Azure platform updates covering a new ACA sandbox environment for isolating AI agents at the kernel level, multiple service retirements... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/azure-weekly-update---2nd-october-2026-wmfewpukf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Azure Weekly Update - 2nd October 2026 | daily.dev og:description: A weekly roundup of Azure platform updates covering a new ACA sandbox environment for isolating AI agents at the kernel level, multiple service retirements... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/azure-weekly-update---2nd-october-2026-wmfewpukf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/WmfeWPukf.png og:image:alt: Azure Weekly Update - 2nd October 2026 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Azure Weekly Update - 2nd October 2026 **[John Savill's Technical Training](https://daily.dev/sources/john-savill)** · 21 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A weekly roundup of Azure platform updates covering a new ACA sandbox environment for isolating AI agents at the kernel level, multiple service retirements (Azure IoT Central, HPC Pack, several VM SKUs, Azure Arc for SCVMM), new VM SKUs optimized for local NVMe storage, and a large batch of database announcements spanning Postgres SQL (version 18 preview on Microsoft's Postgres offering, new long-term retention architecture, cross-tenant customer-managed keys, ultradisk support), Azure Database for MySQL reader endpoints, and a wide set of Azure SQL features including flexible memory, native vector search, serverless auto-pause/resume, SQL agent skills, Fabric's new database hub, and GA of SQL Server on Azure Local. Also covers the GA release of new GPT and Sonic model availability across Microsoft's Copilot products. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### When is Azure IoT Central being retired and what should I migrate to? Azure IoT Central is being retired in September 2029. Organizations should evaluate their current usage and migrate to more scalable alternatives such as Fabric's real-time analytics capability for data processing, or Azure IoT Hub and Device Provisioning Service (DPS) for device connectivity and provisioning, before the retirement date. _Teams planning long infrastructure migrations track deprecation timelines like this on daily.dev._ ### What is Azure Container Apps sandboxes (ACA sandboxes) used for? ACA sandboxes provide an isolated, kernel-level hardware sandbox environment for running AI agents, complete with a separate egress proxy to control what the agent can communicate with. It is built by the same team behind Azure Container Apps and is the underlying technology used by Microsoft's own Foundry-hosted agents, now made available for anyone building their own agent orchestrator. _Developers building custom agent orchestrators can keep tabs on sandboxing options like this via daily.dev._ ### When is the Microsoft HPC Pack being retired and what replaces it? The Microsoft HPC Pack is being retired around the same time next year (roughly one year out from the announcement). It provided a control plane for creating and managing pools of compute nodes for job submission; Azure Batch is the suggested replacement, offering managed high-performance compute and parallel scheduling, though it is not a direct one-to-one mapping and requires evaluation before migrating. _Engineers planning HPC workload migrations can follow service retirement news like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Azure updates for partners: December 2025](https://daily.dev/posts/azure-updates-for-partners-december-2025-kgps0kxck) · Microsoft Azure · 2 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#azure](https://daily.dev/tags/azure), [#postgresql](https://daily.dev/tags/postgresql) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/azure-weekly-update---2nd-october-2026-wmfewpukf) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Azure Weekly Update - 2nd October 2026","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/azure-weekly-update---2nd-october-2026-wmfewpukf","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/azure-weekly-update---2nd-october-2026-wmfewpukf"},"datePublished":"2026-10-02T16:09:42.464Z","dateModified":"2026-10-02T16:10:12.774Z","description":"A weekly roundup of Azure platform updates covering a new ACA sandbox environment for isolating AI agents at the kernel level, multiple service retirements...","image":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yluw5tkRdbE/sddefault.jpg","thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yluw5tkRdbE/sddefault.jpg","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"John Savill's Technical Training","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"John Savill's Technical Training","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--4rApg0fT--/f_auto,q_auto/v1780213220/logos/john-savill?_a=BAMAMiWQ0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/john-savill"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/azure-weekly-update---2nd-october-2026-wmfewpukf","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ai-agents,azure,postgresql","timeRequired":"PT21M","video":{"@type":"VideoObject","name":"Azure Weekly Update - 2nd October 2026","description":"A weekly roundup of Azure platform updates covering a new ACA sandbox environment for isolating AI agents at the kernel level, multiple service retirements...","thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yluw5tkRdbE/sddefault.jpg","uploadDate":"2026-10-02T16:09:42.464Z","duration":"PT21M","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/WmfeWPukf","embedUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/embed/yluw5tkRdbE"}} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"John Savill's Technical Training","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/john-savill"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Azure Weekly Update - 2nd October 2026"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/azure-weekly-update---2nd-october-2026-wmfewpukf#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"When is Azure IoT Central being retired and what should I migrate to?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Azure IoT Central is being retired in September 2029. 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