--- title: Azure Weekly Update - 9th October 2026 | daily.dev description: Weekly roundup of Azure platform updates covering compute, networking, database, and AI developments. Highlights include AKS bare metal on Ubuntu (preview),... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/azure-weekly-update---9th-october-2026-hib0vmnoy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Azure Weekly Update - 9th October 2026 | daily.dev og:description: Weekly roundup of Azure platform updates covering compute, networking, database, and AI developments. 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Highlights include AKS bare metal on Ubuntu (preview), AKS Any Scale GA with Ray integration, NAT Gateway standard v2 becoming the default, and several retirements: Java 8/11/17 in App Service (Sept next year), Azure Deployment Environments (Feb 22 next year, no direct replacement), and Microsoft Dev Box (Sept 18 2028, replaced by Windows 365). Networking updates include App Gateway IPv6 preview and WAF exceptions reaching GA. Database updates cover PostgreSQL Flexible Server in East US3 (GA), PostgreSQL elastic clusters gaining in-place major version upgrades (preview), SQL Server on Linux bulk admin roles (GA), PostgreSQL Azure Backup v2 mode (preview) with snapshot-based incremental backups up to 64TB, Fabric cross-source table discovery (Oct 15), SQL Server on Azure VMs in the France sovereign cloud, Horizon DB expanding regions, and Always Encrypted with Intel SGX enclaves being retired (end of October 2027). Also mentions GitHub Copilot's new local/cloud hybrid model routing using a quantized local AI model for coding tasks. ## 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 Deployment Environments being retired and what should I migrate to? Azure Deployment Environments is being retired on February 22 of next year, with no direct replacement service. The recommended path is to recreate the capability using infrastructure-as-code tools like Bicep with Azure Verified Modules, or Terraform, combined with a deployment pipeline such as GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps Pipelines to provision and manage app environments. _Teams planning this migration can track Azure infrastructure-as-code guidance and alternatives on daily.dev._ ### When does Azure App Service retire support for Java 8, 11, and 17? Azure App Service is retiring Java 8, 11, and 17 support beginning in September of next year. Applications still running on these versions need to upgrade to Java 25 or a newer supported version before that retirement date to avoid service disruption. _Developers tracking Java version deprecations across cloud platforms can follow these updates on daily.dev._ ### What does the Postgres elastic clusters major version upgrade in-place preview feature do? Postgres elastic clusters on Azure now support in-place major version upgrades in preview, meaning no data copying, no server rename, and minimal user interruption during the upgrade. Elastic clusters use the Citus extension to shard data horizontally across multiple servers, and upgrades are limited to supported Postgres versions, letting teams test upgrades before touching production. _Engineers planning Postgres version upgrades can compare approaches and trade-offs on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Azure SDK Release \(September 2026\)](https://daily.dev/posts/azure-sdk-release-september-2026--n3pkzhgwl) · DevBlogs · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#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---9th-october-2026-hib0vmnoy) ```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 - 9th October 2026","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/azure-weekly-update---9th-october-2026-hib0vmnoy","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/azure-weekly-update---9th-october-2026-hib0vmnoy"},"datePublished":"2026-10-09T16:10:33.555Z","dateModified":"2026-10-09T16:10:55.644Z","description":"Weekly roundup of Azure platform updates covering compute, networking, database, and AI developments. 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