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RSS feedFebruary 2024
Azure Firewall: Flow Trace Logs and Autoscaling based on number of connections are now generally available
Flow Trace Logs provide more visibility into the TCP handshake, providing insight into whether traffic is properly flowing through the firewall. In addition, Azure Firewall can now autoscale based on number of connections, providing more scaling adaptability to dynamic workloads.
Azure Firewall: Parallel IP Group update support is now in public preview
Parallel IP Group support enables administrators to simultaneously update multiple IP Groups in a firewall, streamlining the process of implementing devOps changes.
August 2023
Azure Firewall Single-Click Upgrade and Downgrade is now in general availability
This feature allows you to upgrade your firewall without service downtime, with a single click of a button.
Azure Firewall: Poland Central Region is now in general availability
Azure Firewall is now generally available in the Poland Central region.
Azure Firewall: Explicit Proxy is now in public preview
This configuration allows traffic from the sending application to be directed to the private IP address of the firewall, facilitating direct egress from the firewall without the need for a UDR.
Azure Firewall: Auto-Learn SNAT routes feature is now in public preview
Azure Firewall can now learn address ranges and automatically configure them to be excluded from SNAT, to reduce time and complexity spent manually defining SNAT private ranges.
Public preview: New Monitoring and Logging Updates in Azure Firewall
Resource Health and Embedded Firewall Workbooks are now in public preview.
General availability: New Monitoring and Logging Updates in Azure Firewall
Structured Logs and Latency Probe Metric are now in general availability.
General availability: Illumio for Microsoft Azure Firewall
Illumio for Azure Firewall enables organizations to understand application traffic and dependencies and apply consistent protection across environments - limiting exposure, containing breaches, and improving efficiency.
May 2023
Generally available: Policy analytics for Azure Firewall
Policy analytics for Azure Firewall, now in general availability, provides enhanced visibility into traffic flowing through Azure Firewall, enabling the optimization of your firewall configuration without impacting your application performance.
March 2023
Generally available: Azure Firewall Basic
Azure Firewall Basic provides cost-effective, enterprise-grade network security for small and medium businesses (SMBs).
Public preview: Illumio for Azure Firewall
Illumio for Azure Firewall enables organisations to understand application traffic and dependencies and apply consistent protection across environments - limiting exposure, containing breaches, and improving efficiency.
October 2022
Public preview: Azure Firewall Basic
Azure Firewall Basic provides cost-effective, enterprise-grade network security for small and medium businesses (SMBs).
September 2022
Public preview: Policy analytics for Azure Firewall
You can now manage firewall rules over time by providing insights and analysis of traffic flowing through Azure Firewall.
August 2022
Azure Firewall Premium is now ICSA labs certified
Azure Firewall Premium Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) certification from ICSA Labs is now available.
January 2022
Azure Traffic Manager: Additional IP addresses for endpoint monitoring service.
Update your network access control rules if you see Traffic Manager health probes with new IP addresses.
November 2021
General availability: New troubleshooting experiences in Network Insights for VPN Gateway & Azure Firewall
Rich insights for additional networking resources in Azure Monitor.
October 2021
Azure Firewall Premium now generally available in five new Azure regions
New zone options for additional resiliency and tolerance to infrastructure impact.
July 2021
Announcing the Azure Firewall Premium general availability
Utilize next-generation firewall capabilities in Azure Firewall Premium
November 2020
New Azure Firewall capabilities will be generally available in Q4 CY2020
Custom DNS, DNS Proxy capability, and FQDN filtering in network rules will be generally available.
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