Azure updates

Azure Front Door (classic) will be retired on 31 March 2027

Target retirement date: March 31, 2027

Migrate to Azure Front Door Standard or Premium by 31 March 2027, when Front Door (classic) will be retired.

• Azure Front Door (classic)
• Security
• Retirements

General availability: Domain fronting update on Azure Front Door and Azure CDN

Azure Front Door supports the use of different values for the TLS SNI extension and the host header, provided that both values are added as domains in the same Azure subscription.

• Azure Front Door (classic)
• Content Delivery Network
• Services
• Security
• Features

General availability: Azure Front Door Migration from classic to standard/premium

Azure Front Door Standard/Premium is the new Azure native, modern cloud content delivery network (CDN) catering to both dynamic and static content delivery acceleration with enhanced security and a simple and predictable pricing model.

• Azure Front Door (classic)
• Azure Front Door
• Services
• Security
• Features

Public preview: Azure Front Door zero downtime migration

You can use this feature to migrate Azure Front Door (classic) to Azure Front Door Standard and Premium with zero downtime.

• Azure Front Door (classic)
• Azure Front Door
• Security
• Features

Generally available: Controls to block domain fronting behavior on customer resources

Block domain fronting behavior on Azure Front Door, Azure Front Door (classic), and Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) resources.

• Azure Front Door (classic)
• Azure Front Door
• Content Delivery Network
• Services
• Security
• Features

Generally available: The new Azure Front Door – a modern cloud CDN service

Azure Front Door is a modern cloud CDN that enables you to accelerate the delivery of applications, APIs, and content on Azure or anywhere at scale.

• Azure Front Door (classic)
• Services
• Security
• Features

Public preview: Azure Static Web Apps enterprise-grade edge

Extend your Static Web App with a zero-config enterprise-grade edge powered by Azure Front Door.

• Azure Front Door (classic)
• Azure Functions
• Security
• Features

General availability: Web Application Firewall for Azure Front Door managed ruleset refresh

Use Microsoft_DefaultRuleSet_1.1 to protect your web applications from OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities.

• Web Application Firewall
• Azure Front Door (classic)
• Services
• Security
• Management
• Features

Revocation of non-compliant Certificate Authorities potentially impacting customer’s Azure service(s).

Recent reports detailed Certificate Authorities that were not compliant with industry standards for trusted CAs. As per industry requirements, non-compliant CAs are being revoked requiring customers certificates to be re-issued.

• App Service
• API Management
• Application Gateway
• Content Delivery Network
• Azure Front Door (classic)
• Compliance
• Security
• Management

Azure Front Door rules engine now generally available

Azure Front Door rules engine is now generally available. Take advantage of these new rules to further customize the behavior of your Front Door to best meet the needs of your customers. Rules engine empowers you to modify request and response headers, or dynamically override your existing route behavior based on incoming requests. Create up to 25 rules per configuration.

• Azure Front Door (classic)
• Services
• Security

Rules Engine for Azure Front Door Service is now in preview

Take advantage of new rules to further customize your Azure Front Door Service behavior. Rules Engine on Azure Front Door Service brings your specific routing needs to the forefront of its application delivery experience, giving you more control over how you define and enforce what content gets served from where. Rules Engine empowers you to modify request and response headers, or dynamically override your existing route behavior based on incoming requests.

• Azure Front Door (classic)
• Services
• Security

Azure Front Door—March 2020 updates

Azure Front Door is a cloud-native modern content delivery network offering that enables customers to improve their apps for performance, security, availability, and scalability by providing a high-performant and low-latency network, web application firewall, global load balancing, SSL offload, and TCP/SSL optimizations. Several new capabilities for Front Door are now generally available.

• Azure Front Door (classic)
• Services
• Security

Introducing promotional pricing for data transfer to Azure Front Door

Promotional pricing for data transfer to Azure Front Door is now available.

• Azure Front Door (classic)
• Services
• Security

Web Application Firewall (WAF) for Azure Front Door service is now generally available

Web Application Firewall (WAF) for Azure Front Door service is now generally available. Customers can use WAF to define security policies that allow, block, forward or rate limit access to their web applications delivered through Azure Front Door.

• Azure Front Door (classic)
• Services
• Security
• Features

Azure Front Door Service is now available

Azure Front Door Service has entered general availability and is now fully supported with a 99.99 percent SLA.

• Azure Front Door (classic)
• Services
• Security