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Azure Load Balancer support for IP-based backend pool management is in preview
Azure Load Balancer now supports adding and removing resources from a backend pool via an IPv4 or IPv6 addresses and virtual network ID. This will enable you to easily manage the containers, virtual machines, and virtual machine scale sets associated with their load balancer. It will also allow IP addresses to be reserved as part of a backend pool before the associated resources are created.
January 2019
General availability: Standard Load Balancer and Standard Public IP in Azure Government
Azure Standard Load Balancer and Standard Public IP are now generally available in Azure Government cloud regions.
September 2017
Azure Load Balancer standard HA Ports
HA Ports, a premium offering of the Azure Standard Load Balancer, is now generally available. This will enable customers to configure a single load-balancing rule to process traffic from all protocols and ports, thus enabling deployment of services or appliances in high-availability mode.
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