Azure updates

Azure Virtual Network Manager user-defined route (UDR) management now in public preview

UDR management in Azure Virtual Network Manager is now in public preview, enabling users to describe their desired routing behavior via configuration, simplifying the management of routing behaviors at scale.

• Azure Virtual Network Manager
• Services
• Features

General availability: Application Gateway Web Application Firewall (WAF) inspection limit & size enforcement

Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall (WAF) running on Application Gateway now supports greater control over request body inspection, and maximum size limits for request bodies and file uploads.

• Web Application Firewall
• Application Gateway
• Security
• Features

General availability: Virtual network flow logs

Gain visibility of IP traffic flowing through your virtual networks

• Network Watcher
• Virtual Network
• Azure Virtual Network Manager
• Services
• Features

Azure Virtual Network Manager security admin rule generally available in all public regions

Azure Virtual Network Manager's security admin rule configuration is now generally available in all public regions, empowering users to enforce security rules across their virtual networks globally.

• Azure Virtual Network Manager
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

Five Azure classic networking services will be retired on 31 August 2024

Target retirement date: August 31, 2024

Classic Networking Services retiring in August 2024.

• Virtual Network
• Retirements

Using Azure Virtual Network Manager network groups in security admin rules is now in public preview

Using your Azure Virtual Network Manager network groups in the source and/or destination of security admin rules is now in public preview, enabling users to achieve network isolation across different environments and manage network segments more easily at scale.

• Azure Virtual Network Manager
• Security
• Services
• Management
• Features

General availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption availability in all regions

Azure Virtual Network encryption is a feature of Azure Virtual Networks. Virtual network encryption allows you to seamlessly encrypt and decrypt traffic between Azure Virtual Machines.

• Virtual Network
• Regions & Datacenters
• Services
• Features

Azure Virtual Network Manager Security Admin Rule generally available in 45 regions

Azure Virtual Network Manager's security admin rule configuration is now generally available in 45 regions, empowering users to enforce security rules across their virtual networks globally.

• Azure Virtual Network Manager
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

Public preview: ExpressRoute Metro for High Resiliency

ExpressRoute lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection with the help of a connectivity provider. With ExpressRoute, you can establish connections to Microsoft cloud services, such as Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365.

• Azure ExpressRoute
• ExpressRoute Circuits
• Services
• Features

General availability: Rate Limiting on ExpressRoute Direct Circuits

Rate Limiting is now generally available over ExpressRoute Direct port circuits, providing enhanced control over bandwidth usage. This Quality of Service (QoS) feature prevents circuits from bursting beyond their configured bandwidth, thereby improving network performance and reliability. Rate Limiting can be enabled for each circuit individually, offering flexibility to prioritize certain circuits. This feature can be activated during or after the creation of the ExpressRoute Direct circuit.

• Azure ExpressRoute
• Features

Public preview: Public IP Domain Name Label Scope

Announcing the public preview for a new capability in Azure public IP address that can prevent DNS subdomain takeover while still allowing for re-use of DNS names.

• Azure DNS
• Features

Generally available: Application Gateway (v2) IPv6 support

Azure Application Gateway v2 enables dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) connectivity from the clients, providing more flexible and reliable access to the backend Applications.

• Application Gateway
• Security
• Services
• Features

General availability: Listener TLS certificates management in the Azure portal

You can now manage the TLS certificates associated with Listeners through Azure portal.

• Application Gateway
• Security
• Services
• Management
• Features

Microsoft open sources Retina: A cloud-native container networking observability platform

The Microsoft's Azure Container Networking team is announcing Retina, a cloud-native container networking observability platform that enables Kubernetes users, admins, and developers to visualize, observe, debug, and analyze Kubernetes’ workload traffic irrespective of Container Network Interface (CNI), operating system (OS), and cloud.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Network Watcher
• Open Source
• Services
• Features

Retirement: Support for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall v2 Configuration is ending

Target retirement date: March 15, 2027

On 15 March 2027, the Application Gateway WAF v2 Configuration will be retired. To continue using this service, switch to the Application Gateway WAF v2 Policy before the retirement date.

• Web Application Firewall
• Application Gateway
• Security
• Retirements

General availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption now in additional regions

Azure Virtual Network encryption is a feature of Azure Virtual Networks. Virtual network encryption allows you to seamlessly encrypt and decrypt traffic between Azure Virtual Machines. Now available in additional regions.

• Virtual Network
• Regions & Datacenters
• Services
• Features