Azure dropped **AKS Automatic**, a new managed Kubernetes tier that tries to do it all—so you don’t have to. It comes with baked-in best practices: autoscaling via HPA, VPA, KEDA, and Karpenter. Automated patching. Node repair. Monitoring. All wired up by default. You still get full access to the Kubernetes API, but Azure handles the gritty infra bits. It’s tuned for AI and cloud-native work, and claims to be production-ready out of the box.