Availability-Zones - 1

2026 (3)

September (1)

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Automatic Zone Placement for Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Azure Updates

2026-09-29

Azure has introduced a public preview of Automatic Zone Placement for Virtual Machine Scale Sets. Azure will automatically choose suitable availability zones based on SKU availability, capacity, and placement requirements, reducing the need to manage zone lists manually.

August (2)

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Zone redundancy for Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-gen General Purpose

Azure Updates

2026-08-17

Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-gen General Purpose now supports public preview of zone redundancy. It automatically distributes compute and data across availability zones to improve resilience and business continuity.

aks: Release 2026-08-07

Release notes from AKS

2026-08-11

AKS release v20260807 adds Node Auto Provisioning support for restricted publicNetworkAccess clusters, global automatic availability zone placement, control-plane-only upgrades to AKS LTS, and GA node pool rollback. It also includes several behavioral changes that can trigger immediate node reimages on Kubernetes 1.37+, plus component and image updates.