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General availability: Gateway Load Balancer IPv6 Support
IPv6 support for Gateway Load Balancer is now generally available in all regions, enabling bump-in-the-wire network virtual appliance (NVA) insertion for your dual-stack architectures.
July 2023
Azure’s cross-region Load Balancer is now generally available
Azure Load Balancer support for cross-region load balancing is now generally available. You can now load balance across Azure regions enabling a globally redundant architecture via Azure Load Balancer.
June 2023
General availability: Inbound ICMPv6 pings and traceroute are now supported on Azure Load Balancer
Ping and traceroute to both IPv4 and IPv6 frontend of a Standard Public Load Balancer like you natively would on an on-premises device without any external software needed.
General availability: Azure Load Balancer per VM limit removal
Increase resiliency, higher availability, and flexibility by utilizing more than 2 Standard Load Balancers per VM.
May 2023
General availability: Inbound ICMPv4 pings are now supported on Azure Load Balancer
Inbound ICMPv4 pings are now supported on Azure Load Balancer.
November 2022
General availability: 12 months free services for new Azure PAYG customers
With an Azure free account, you can explore with free amounts of 55+ always free services.
September 2022
Azure Basic Load Balancer will be retired on 30 September 2025—upgrade to Standard Load Balancer
Target retirement date: September 30, 2025
Basic Load Balancer will be retired.
July 2022
Generally available: Azure Gateway Load Balancer
Gateway Load Balancer enables you to deploy, scale, and enhance the availability of third party network virtual appliances (NVAs) in Azure with ease.
March 2022
General availability: Bring your own IP ranges to Azure
Bring your own public IP ranges to Azure to retain existing reputation or to prevent your customers from needing to modify dependencies (e.g. firewalls or other hardcoding) on their network.
General availability: Inbound NAT rule now supports port management for backend pools
You can now specify target backend pool in inbound NAT rule for less management overhead when configuring port forwarding.
January 2022
Generally available: Load Balancer SKU upgrade through PowerShell script
Upgrade to Standard SKU Load Balancer easily through a simple PowerShell script and take advantage of enhanced capabilities.
November 2021
Gateway Load Balancer now in public preview
Gateway Load Balancer enables you to deploy, scale and enhance the availability of third-party network virtual appliances (NVAs) in Azure with ease
March 2021
Azure Load Balancer support for IP-based backend pool management is now generally available
Azure Load Balancer support for adding and removing resources from a backend pool via IP address is now generally available. This enables IP addresses to be reserved as part of a backend pool before the associated resources are created.
February 2021
Standard Load Balancer and IP addresses metadata now available through Azure Instance Metadata Service (IMDS)
Azure Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) is a mature REST API that offers metadata information regarding networking, storage, SKU etc. We are now adding Load Balancer-related information to the list of metadata IMDS covers.
January 2021
Public IP SKU upgrade generally available
Azure public IPs now support the ability to be upgraded from Basic to Standard SKU, enabling customers to retain the same IP address for services that require Standard IP frontends.
October 2020
Standard Load Balancer and Public IP addresses support resource group move
Standard Load Balancers and Standard Public IP addresses support cross resource group moves enabling easy management of resources at the resource group level.
September 2020
Preview: Azure Load Balancer now supports cross-region load balancing
Azure Load Balancer now supports load balancing across regions based on health and latency.
August 2020
Upcoming changes to Standard Public IPs and Standard Load Balancers
The zone-related behaviour in Standard Public IP address and Standard Load Balancer is being changed.
July 2020
Introducing Azure Load Balancer Insights using Azure Monitor for Networks
Azure Load Balancer customers now have instant access to a preconfigured solution for health monitoring and configuration analysis enabling rapid fault localisation and informed design decisions.
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.
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