Skip Navigation

Azure updates

Get the latest updates on Azure products and features to meet your cloud investment needs. Subscribe to notifications to stay informed.

RSS feed
Product category
Status:

September 2023

26 Sep

General availability: Gateway Load Balancer IPv6 Support

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Load Balancing
  • Application Gateway
  • Services
  • Security
  • Features

July 2023

10 Jul

Azure’s cross-region Load Balancer is now generally available

NOW 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.

  • Load Balancing
  • Services
  • Features

June 2023

8 Jun

General availability: Inbound ICMPv6 pings and traceroute are now supported on Azure Load Balancer

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Load Balancing
  • Features
1 Jun

General availability: Azure Load Balancer per VM limit removal

NOW AVAILABLE

Increase resiliency, higher availability, and flexibility by utilizing more than 2 Standard Load Balancers per VM.

  • Load Balancing
  • Features

May 2023

8 May

General availability: Inbound ICMPv4 pings are now supported on Azure Load Balancer

NOW AVAILABLE

Inbound ICMPv4 pings are now supported on Azure Load Balancer.

  • Load Balancing
  • Features

November 2022

30 Nov

General availability: 12 months free services for new Azure PAYG customers

NOW AVAILABLE

With an Azure free account, you can explore with free amounts of 55+ always free services.

  • Media Services
  • Azure Container Registry
  • Service Bus
  • Load Balancing
  • Virtual Machines
  • Key Vault
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Azure Files
  • Azure AI services
  • Azure AI Vision
  • Services
  • Security

September 2022

30 Sep

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.

  • Load Balancing
  • Retirements

July 2022

14 Jul

Generally available: Azure Gateway Load Balancer

NOW AVAILABLE

Gateway Load Balancer enables you to deploy, scale, and enhance the availability of third party network virtual appliances (NVAs) in Azure with ease.

  • Load Balancing
  • Services
  • Features

March 2022

31 Mar

General availability: Bring your own IP ranges to Azure

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Load Balancing
  • Virtual Network
  • Features
21 Mar

General availability: Inbound NAT rule now supports port management for backend pools

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now specify target backend pool in inbound NAT rule for less management overhead when configuring port forwarding.

  • Load Balancing
  • Features

January 2022

10 Jan

Generally available: Load Balancer SKU upgrade through PowerShell script

NOW AVAILABLE

Upgrade to Standard SKU Load Balancer easily through a simple PowerShell script and take advantage of enhanced capabilities.

  • Load Balancing
  • Features

November 2021

2 Nov

Gateway Load Balancer now in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Gateway Load Balancer enables you to deploy, scale, and enhance the availability of third party network virtual appliances (NVAs) in Azure with ease

  • Load Balancing
  • Services
  • Microsoft Ignite

March 2021

2 Mar

Azure Load Balancer support for IP-based backend pool management is now generally available

NOW 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.

  • Load Balancing
  • Management
  • Features

February 2021

15 Feb

Standard Load Balancer and IP addresses metadata now available through Azure Instance Metadata Service (IMDS)

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) is a mature REST API which offers metadata information regarding Networking, Storage, SKU and etc. We are now adding Load Balancer related information to the list of metadata IMDS covers.

  • Load Balancing
  • Features

January 2021

11 Jan

Public IP SKU upgrade generally available

NOW 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.

  • IP Addresses
  • Load Balancing
  • Features

October 2020

6 Oct

Standard Load Balancer and Public IP addresses support resource group move

NOW AVAILABLE

Standard Load Balancers and Standard Public IP addresses support cross resource group moves enabling easy management of resources at the resource group level.

  • Load Balancing
  • IP Addresses
  • Features

September 2020

22 Sep

Preview: Azure Load Balancer now supports cross-region load balancing

IN PREVIEW

Azure Load Balancer now supports load balancing across regions based on health and latency.

  • Load Balancing
  • Services

August 2020

31 Aug

Upcoming changes to Standard Public IPs and Standard Load Balancers

NOW AVAILABLE

The zone related behaviour in Standard Public IP address and Standard Load Balancer is being changed.

  • Load Balancing
  • Virtual Network
  • IP Addresses
  • Features

July 2020

8 Jul

Introducing Azure Load Balancer Insights using Azure Monitor for Networks

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Load Balancing
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
7 Jul

Azure Load Balancer support for IP-based backend pool management is in preview

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.

  • Load Balancing
  • Management
  • Features

Azure at Microsoft Build

Resources

Read the Azure blog for latest news and announcements.

Blog

Get answers to your questions from Microsoft and Community experts.

Community support

Read commonly asked questions on Azure updates.

FAQ

Find the latest news, updates and resources for Azure partners.

Azure Partner Zone

Tell us what you think of Azure and what you want to see in the future.

Provide feedback

Azure is available in more regions than any other cloud provider.

Check product availability in your region