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General availability: Azure ExpressRoute: New ExpressRoute Direct locations available
ExpressRoute Direct gives you the ability to connect directly into Microsoft’s global network at peering locations strategically distributed around the world.
General availability: Azure ExpressRoute: New ExpressRoute peering locations available
ExpressRoute lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection with the help of a connectivity provider.
General availability: Azure ExpressRoute Global Reach: 2 new locations
ExpressRoute Global Reach allows you to link ExpressRoute circuits in different locations together to make a private network between your on-premises networks.
July 2021
General availability: Azure ExpressRoute: 3 New Peering Locations Available
ExpressRoute lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection with the help of a connectivity provider. The service is now available in 3 new peering locations.
June 2021
General availability: ExpressRoute Global Reach Pricing Reduction
ExpressRoute Global Reach allows you to link ExpressRoute circuits together to make a private network between your on-premises networks. The data transfer price for this offering is now 50% lower.
May 2021
General availability: Azure ExpressRoute: 5 New Peering Locations Available
ExpressRoute lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection with the help of a connectivity provider. The service is now available in 5 new peering locations.
March 2021
General availability: ExpressRoute monitoring in Azure Monitor network insights
Network insights in Azure Monitor now supports monitoring Azure ExpressRoute resources out of the box without any additional configuration or setup.
Public preview: IPv6 Support for ExpressRoute Private Peering
This support will unlock hybrid connectivity for you as you expand into new, IPv6-dependent markets or transition to IPv6 in your own networks.
November 2020
General availability: VPN over ExpressRoute private peering
VPN over ExpressRoute allows customers to encrypt all traffic going over their ExpressRoute circuit. VPN over ExpressRoute, combined with site-to-site and point-to-site VPN provides end-to-end encryption between data centers, branch offices and remote users.
November 2019
Azure ExpressRoute for satellites is now available
ExpressRoute, with one of the largest networking ecosystems in the public cloud, now includes satellite connectivity partners, bringing new options and coverage.
September 2019
Monitor bandwidth usage for all peered Azure virtual networks with ExpressRoute
Monitor bandwidth use for all peered Azure virtual networks with an improvement to ExpressRoute, a capability of Network Performance Monitor.
New Azure ExpressRoute sites now available
Announcing three new ExpressRoute meet-me sites in Europe.
July 2019
VNet Gateway Standard and High Performance Resource GUID changes
Effective September 1, 2019, the resource GUIDs (also known as meter IDs) for Virtual Network Gateway standard and high performance will change.
Azure Cosmos DB ExpressRoute BGP Community now available
We are now announcing the addition of the Azure Cosmos DB community on ExpressRoute, which will allow for regional advertisements of Azure Cosmos DB.
June 2019
ExpressRoute now supports up to 4 circuits from the same peering location into the VNet
You can now connect up to 4 circuits in a peering location to the same ExpressRoute virtual network gateway.
May 2019
Azure ExpressRoute is generally available in eight additional locations
Azure ExpressRoute lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection facilitated by a connectivity provider. The ExpressRoute footprint is expanding to eight new locations.
Azure VMware Solutions is now generally available
Run your VMware workloads natively on Azure with Azure VMware Solutions. This new category of Azure services, now available to the public, allows you to deploy your VMware-based applications on a dedicated and bare metal infrastructure in Azure.
April 2019
ExpressRoute Global Reach is now available
Azure ExpressRoute Global Reach allows customers to connect their on-premises networks via the ExpressRoute service through the Microsoft global network.
ExpressRoute Direct is now available
ExpressRoute Direct lets you use the functionality of ExpressRoute and connect directly to the global Microsoft backbone at 100 Gbps.
March 2019
ExpressRoute Resource GUID name change from "Port" to "Direct"
On May 1, 2019, the resource GUID names of ExpressRoute will change from "Port" to "Direct."
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