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Azure Virtual Network service endpoint policies feature is now available
Target availability: Q1 2020
Azure Virtual Network service endpoint policies enable you to prevent unauthorized access to Azure Storage accounts from your virtual network.
Public IP prefix static IP addresses meter ID changes
Effective April 1, 2020, the resource GUIDs (also known as meter IDs) of public IP prefix standard static IP addresses in the US Gov region will change.
Azure Private Link is now available
Azure Private Link is a secure and scalable way for Azure customers to consume Azure Services (such as Storage, SQL, and Cosmos DB) or Customer Own services (for example, Partner Service and BYOS) privately from within their virtual network.
Azure Key Vault—Private endpoints now available in preview
Target availability: Q1 2020
Establish a private connection between Azure Key Vault and other Azure services by using Azure Private Link, now available in preview for all public regions.
January 2020
Azure Bastion now generally available in East US 2 and West US 2
Azure Bastion is now generally available in two more Azure public cloud regions—East US 2 and West US 2. We'll continue to add more regions going forward.
December 2019
Azure Private Link support in AKS now in preview
Use Azure Private Link support in AKS to Interact with the Kubernetes API server as a private endpoint in your virtual network, ensuring that all Kubernetes management operations remain completely isolated.
November 2019
Azure Private Link is now available in all regions
Azure Private Link, which provides private connectivity to Azure services, is now available in all regions.
September 2019
Azure Private Link is now available in preview
Target availability: Q3 2019
Connect to services in your Azure virtual networks more securely and privately with Azure Private Link, now available in preview.
August 2019
Azure Firewall feature updates for July 2019
Here are the Azure Firewall feature updates for July 2019.
July 2019
Microsoft adds new features to IPv6 support for Azure VNets
IPv6 for Azure VNETs enables you to expand into the growing mobile and IoT markets with your Azure-based applications and to address IPv4 depletion in your own networks.
June 2019
Azure Bastion - RDP and SSH over SSL - now available for Preview
Fully managed service for seamless and secure RDP/SSH access to your virtual machines without public IP on the VM.
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
General Availability: Public IP Prefix
Public IP Prefix, a reserved range of static IP addresses, is generally available in all Azure public regions, China cloud regions, and Government cloud regions.
April 2019
Public Preview: Microsoft adds full IPv6 support for Azure VNets
Dual Stack IPv4/IPv6 Connectivity allows you to bring your private IPv6 space into Azure and enables connectivity over IPv6 within your Virtual Networks.
General availability: Gateway Transit support for Global VNet Peering
Global VNet Peering now supports Gateway Transit to simplify customer network's by allowing the use of a remote gateway in another region.
March 2019
Threat intelligence-based filtering for Azure Firewall is now available in preview
Threat intelligence-based filtering for Azure Firewall is now available in preview. The addition of the Threat Intelligence feed to the filtering capabilities expands both the options to alert and deny traffic from or to known malicious IP addresses and domains.
Global VNet Peering now supports Standard Load Balancer
Global VNet Peering now supports Standard Load Balancer in all Azure regions, including Azure China and Azure Government regions.
General availability: Global VNet Peering in Azure Government regions
Global VNet Peering is available in Azure Government cloud regions.
February 2019
Virtual network service endpoints for Azure Database for MariaDB are now generally available
Now generally available, virtual network service endpoints for Azure Database for MariaDB are accessible in all available regions.
Enhancements to NSG flow logs (version 2) for Azure Network Watcher
Enhancements to NSG flow logs (version 2) and traffic analytics are available in all public cloud regions.
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