Germany North floods with DCv5, US sees AI rollouts

· AI summary
303 new6 regressions16 parked
Daily executive summary

Compared with the 2026-07-03 snapshot, the 2026-07-04 scan recorded 303 new listings, 6 regressions, and 16 parked unknown transitions.

Representative changes: text embedding 3 large model from OpenAI (version 1) was no longer listed in northeurope; text embedding 3 small model from OpenAI (version 1) was no longer listed in northeurope; Standard Dc1s V2 VM size was no longer listed in westus2.

What this means: Review the 6 regressions against existing regional targets and fallbacks first; treat the 303 new listings as options to validate. These are read-only catalog/list signals, not quota, capacity, or deployment results. Zero new delistings does not establish recovery of earlier missing listings.

7-day context (2026-06-28 to 2026-07-04): across 7 recorded scans, there were 2,099 new listings and 3,504 regressions. New listings led on 2 scans; regressions led on 5.

Archived commentary and representative evidence

The day’s biggest move is in Germany North: a broad wave of VM SKU activations across the DCas/DCads v5 families, including cc and non-cc variants from dc2 to dc96. That’s a substantial capacity and SKU-class expansion in one region, easily the largest footprint change in this cycle.

AI lit up in the US: Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.2 is now available in Central US and East US, with East US 2 getting both Sonnet 5.1 and 5.2. Clear signal of newer model availability rolling out across core US regions.

Regressions matter: North Europe lost OpenAI text-embedding-3-large.1 and text-embedding-3-small.1, and West US 2 saw DC v2 SKUs (dc1s.v2, dc2s.v2, dc4s.v2, dc8.v2) delisted. Those are notable step-backs for both AI and VM options.

Engineering context

  • northeurope aiModels.openai.text-embedding-3-large.1 available → unavailable
  • northeurope aiModels.openai.text-embedding-3-small.1 available → unavailable
  • westus2 vmSkus.standard.dc1s.v2 available → unavailable
  • westus2 vmSkus.standard.dc2s.v2 available → unavailable
  • westus2 vmSkus.standard.dc4s.v2 available → unavailable
  • westus2 vmSkus.standard.dc8.v2 available → unavailable
  • centralus aiModels.anthropic.claude-sonnet-5.2 None → available
  • eastus aiModels.anthropic.claude-sonnet-5.2 None → available
  • eastus2 aiModels.anthropic.claude-sonnet-5.1 None → available
  • eastus2 aiModels.anthropic.claude-sonnet-5.2 None → available

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