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January 2024

30 Jan

Public preview: ExpressRoute guided portal experience for multi-site resiliency

IN PREVIEW

With multi-site resiliency, you can configure your ExpressRoute circuits through more than a single peering location. This helps ensure that your’ private connection to Microsoft remains available even if one of the locations experiences an outage. The experience is targeted at helping you design a highly resilient ExpressRoute solution to connect their on-premises with Microsoft backbone and Azure Virtual Networks.

  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • ExpressRoute Circuits
  • ExpressRoute Gateways
  • Services

November 2023

15 Nov

Public preview: Enabling Rate Limiting on ExpressRoute Direct Circuits

IN PREVIEW

With ExpressRoute Direct, you can enable rate-limiting for your circuit to match the traffic volume with the configured bandwidth rate.

  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • ExpressRoute Circuits
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Public preview: Customer-controlled maintenance

IN PREVIEW

Customers can now use configurable maintenance windows to schedule gateway maintenance at a time that is most convenient for their business.

  • VPN Gateway
  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • Virtual WAN
  • Security
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Public preview: ExpressRoute Seamless Gateway Migration

IN PREVIEW

ExpressRoute customers can now seamlessly migrate.

  • ExpressRoute Gateways
  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • Services
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Public preview: ExpressRoute Scalable Gateway

IN PREVIEW

The ExpressRoute virtual network gateway facilitates both management and control plane connectivity to Virtual Machines and Private Endpoints over ExpressRoute.

  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • ExpressRoute Gateways
  • Services
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

General availability: ExpressRoute Direct and Circuit in different subscriptions

NOW AVAILABLE

ExpressRoute Direct customers can now generate an authorization key for your ExpressRoute Direct resource and use it to make an ExpressRoute Circuit in a different subscription.

  • ExpressRoute Circuits
  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • Services
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

General availability: ExpressRoute as a Trusted Service

NOW AVAILABLE

ExpressRoute customers can now store MACSec secrets in an Azure KeyVault.

  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features

October 2023

10 Oct

ExpressRoute Traffic Collector is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Use ExpressRoute Traffic Collector to enable collection of flow logs for traffic sent over your ExpressRoute direct circuit.

  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • Features

July 2023

12 Jul

General availability: ExpressRoute private peering support for BGP communities

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2023

Set BGP community tags on traffic sent from Azure to on-premises over ExpressRoute, enabling a greater variety of hybrid network designs.

  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • Services
  • Features

March 2023

31 Mar

Retirement notice: Migrate from Public Peering by March 31, 2024

Target retirement date: April 01, 2024

ExpressRoute Public Peering will be retired on March 31, 2024.

  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • ExpressRoute Circuits
  • Retirements

October 2022

12 Oct

Public preview: ExpressRoute Traffic Collector

IN PREVIEW

ExpressRoute Traffic Collector enables sampling of network flows sent over ExpressRoute Direct circuits.

  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features

August 2022

29 Aug

General availability: ExpressRoute IPv6 Support for Global Reach

NOW AVAILABLE

IPv6 support for Global Reach expands the possibilities for customers building dual-stack, hybrid networks with Azure.

  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • Features

June 2022

15 Jun

Public preview: ExpressRoute Direct and Circuit in different subscriptions

IN PREVIEW

You can now redeem an ExpressRoute Direct authorization to create an ExpressRoute Circuit in a different subscription.

  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • Features
6 Jun

Public preview: ExpressRoute IPv6 Support for Global Reach

IN PREVIEW

IPv6 support for Global Reach expands the possibilities for customers building dual-stack, hybrid networks with Azure.

  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • Features

November 2021

8 Nov

General availability: ExpressRoute now supports Azure Virtual Desktop Shortpath RDP over Private Peering

NOW AVAILABLE

ExpressRoute enables direct connectivity between on-premises and Microsoft global network. You can connect to virtual machines and private endpoints defined in an Azure virtual network with private peering.

  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • Azure Virtual Desktop
  • Features
2 Nov

Public preview: ExpressRoute private peering support for BGP communities

IN PREVIEW

This support for BGP community tags on traffic sent from Azure to on-premises over ExpressRoute enables customers to set routing preferences and pursue a greater variety of hybrid network designs.

  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • ExpressRoute Circuits
  • ExpressRoute Gateways
  • Features
2 Nov

Public preview: ExpressRoute FastPath improvements

IN PREVIEW

ExpressRoute FastPath now supports more network scenarios, enabling customers with more complex Azure environments to unlock the benefits of FastPath.

  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • ExpressRoute Circuits
  • ExpressRoute Gateways
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features

October 2021

25 Oct

General availability: ExpressRoute IPv6 Support for Private Peering

NOW AVAILABLE

IPv6 support for ExpressRoute Private Peering is now generally available with ExpressRoute circuits and Azure environments globally.

  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • ExpressRoute Circuits
  • ExpressRoute Gateways
  • Features

August 2021

30 Aug

General availability: Azure ExpressRoute: New ExpressRoute Direct locations available

NOW AVAILABLE

ExpressRoute Direct gives you the ability to connect directly into Microsoft’s global network at peering locations strategically distributed around the world.

  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • Services
30 Aug

General availability: Azure ExpressRoute: New ExpressRoute peering locations available

NOW AVAILABLE

ExpressRoute lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection with the help of a connectivity provider.

  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • Services

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