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Standard and High-Performance VPN Gateway SKUs will be retired on 30 September 2025
Target retirement date: September 30, 2025
Standard and High-Performance VPN Gateway SKUs are retiring on September 30th, 2025
November 2023
Public preview: Customer-controlled maintenance
Customers can now use configurable maintenance windows to schedule gateway maintenance at a time that is most convenient for their business.
January 2022
General availability: Multiple custom BGP APIPA addresses for active VPN gateways
Get more flexibility for your on-premises BGP connections to Azure and create BGP-enabled VPN connections between Azure and other cloud providers.
November 2021
General availability: VPN Gateway NAT
Azure VPN Gateway NAT (Network Address Translation) can be used to connect on-premises networks or branch offices to an Azure virtual network with overlapping IP addresses.
General availability: Increased connection limit for VPN Gateways
VPN Gateways can now support up to 100 Site-to-Site/VNet-to-VNet connections for some VPN Gateway SKUs.
General availability: New troubleshooting experiences in Network Insights for VPN Gateway & Azure Firewall
Rich insights for additional networking resources in Azure Monitor.
August 2021
General availability: Azure VPN Client for macOS
Azure VPN Client for macOS enables you to utilize features of Azure AD natively, such as multi-factor authentication, conditional access, and user-based policies for you Mac clients.
June 2021
VPN NAT now in public preview
Azure VPN Gateway NAT (Network Address Translation) can be used to connect on-premises networks or branch offices to an Azure virtual network with overlapping IP addresses.
May 2021
Public preview of Azure VPN Client for macOS
Azure VPN Client for macOS enables customers to utilize features of Azure AD natively, such as multi-factor authentication, Conditional Access, and user-based policies for their Mac clients.
General availability: Multiple features for Azure VPN Gateway
Take advantage of multiple new enhancements and features that are now generally available in Azure VPN Gateway.
March 2021
Multiple new features for Azure VPN Gateway in public preview
Take advantage of multiple new enhancements and features that are now available in Azure VPN Gateway.
November 2020
Multiple new features for Azure VPN Gateway are now generally available
Take advantage of multiple new enhancements and features that are now generally available in Azure VPN Gateway.
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.
October 2020
Multiple new features for Azure VPN Gateway in public preview
Take advantage of multiple new enhancements and features that are now available in Azure VPN Gateway.
February 2020
Native Azure Active Directory authentication support and Azure VPN Client now available
Native Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication support for OpenVPN protocol, and Azure VPN Client for Windows are now generally available for Azure point-to-site (P2S) VPN.
November 2019
Native Azure Active Directory authentication support in point-to-site VPN
Target availability: Q4 2019
Native Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication support for OpenVPN protocol, and Azure VPN Client for Windows are now available.
October 2019
VNet Gateway meter name changes
Effective December 1, 2019, the meter names of VNet Gateway standard, high performance, and ultra high performance will change. There won't be a pricing impact from this change, but you will need to modify billing routines that rely on names.
April 2019
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.
September 2018
OpenVPN support for Azure VPN Gateways
Azure Virtual Network Gateways now support OpenVPN as a protocol for point-to-site clients to connect.
Zone-redundant VPN and ExpressRoute virtual network gateways generally available
Zone-redundant VPN and ExpressRoute virtual network gateways are now generally available. This physically and logically separates them across different availability zones, protecting your on-premises network connectivity to Azure from zone-level failures. Additionally, we have made fundamental performance improvements including reducing the deployment time to create a virtual network gateway.
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