Azure State of the Union 2026 @NTFAQGuy
Azure State of the Union 2026  @NTFAQGuy
Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Overview of core Azure in 2026 and key compute aspects.

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▬▬▬▬▬▬ C H A P T E R S ⏰ ▬▬▬▬▬▬
00:00 - Introduction
00:19 - Capacity and resource
05:32 - Types of service
15:49 - Scaling and consumption
20:39 - Environments
25:47 - Regions
37:18 - Availability Zones
44:25 - Zonal and zone-resilient
47:54 - Proximity placement groups
48:58 - Availability sets
49:54 - SLAs
52:14 - Azure Local
57:00 - EAs
59:19 - Governance
1:01:17 - Entra ID
1:08:13 - Management groups
1:09:24 - Resource groups
1:10:52 - RBAC
1:11:47 - Control and data plane
1:15:05 - Policy
1:16:32 - Budget
1:17:51 - Scopes
1:19:15 - Other governance
1:20:48 - Infrastructure as code
1:22:35 - Deployment stacks
1:24:36 - VM types
1:32:37 - Burstable
1:36:05 - Spot
1:38:10 - Generations
1:39:24 - Pricing calculator
1:40:01 - Savings plan and RI
1:41:44 - Capacity guarantee
1:43:04 - Confidential compute
1:47:09 - Core VM aspects
1:51:50 - Managed disks
1:55:26 - Disk encryption sets
1:57:19 - Azure Key Vault
1:58:02 - Managed identity
2:01:38 - Network
2:04:52 - App services
2:09:12 - Close

▬▬▬▬▬▬ K E Y L I N K S 🔗 ▬▬▬▬▬▬
► Whiteboard:
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github.com/johnthebrit/RandomStuff/raw/master/Whiteboards/AzureSOU2026.png
► Globe explore:
🔗 datacenters.microsoft.com/globe/explore?view=map
► Sovereign solutions:
🔗 blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/06/16/announcing-comprehensive-sovereign-solutions-empowering-european-organizations
► Regions:
🔗 learn.microsoft.com/azure/reliability/regions-list
► SLAs:
🔗 microsoft.com/licensing/docs/view/Service-Level-Agreements-SLA-for-Online-Services?lang=1
► Azure Local services:
🔗 learn.microsoft.com/azure/azure-local/overview/hyperconverged-overview?view=azloc-2601#common-azure-services-used-with-azure-local
► VM sizes:
🔗 docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/windows/sizes
► Pricing calculator:
🔗 azure.microsoft.com/pricing/calculator

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