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March 2024

7 Mar

General availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption now in additional regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Virtual Network encryption is a feature of Azure Virtual Networks. Virtual network encryption allows you to seamlessly encrypt and decrypt traffic between Azure Virtual Machines. Now available in additional regions.

  • Virtual Network
  • Services
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features

January 2024

17 Jan

General availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Virtual Network encryption is a feature of Azure Virtual Networks. Virtual network encryption allows you to seamlessly encrypt and decrypt traffic between Azure Virtual Machines.

  • Virtual Network
  • Services
  • Features

November 2023

16 Nov

Public preview: Private subnet

IN PREVIEW

Private subnet is a new feature that allows you to create subnets that prevent the creation of insecure default outbound public IP address creation

  • Virtual Network
  • IP Addresses
  • Microsoft Ignite

August 2023

16 Aug

Public preview: Azure VNet flow logs

IN PREVIEW

Gain visibility of IP traffic flowing through your Virtual Networks

  • Virtual Network
  • Services
  • Features

July 2023

6 Jul

Public preview: Azure Virtual Network encryption

IN PREVIEW

Azure Virtual Network encryption allows you to seamlessly encrypt and decrypt traffic between Azure Virtual Machines.

  • Virtual Network
  • Features

June 2023

22 Jun

Public Preview: Network Observability add-on on AKS

IN PREVIEW

Enable network observability add-on on AKS clusters to gain insights into how your cluster operate and to identify potential problems before they cause outages or performance degradation.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Monitor
  • Virtual Network
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
1 Jun

General Availability: Isovalent Cilium Enterprise through Azure Marketplace

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2023

Isovalent Cilium Enterprise is now generally available through Azure Marketplace.

  • Virtual Network
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Services
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features

May 2023

30 May

General availability: Azure CNI powered by Cilium

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2023

Leverage next generation eBPF dataplane for pod networking, Kubernetes network policies and service load balancing.

  • Virtual Network
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Services
  • Microsoft Build
  • Security
  • Features

April 2023

24 Apr

Generally available: Cross-region service endpoints for Azure Storage

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now connect Storage Accounts to Virtual Networks in all regions using global service endpoints (cross-region service endpoints).

  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Virtual Network
  • Features
18 Apr

Public Preview: Isovalent Cilium Enterprise through Azure Marketplace

IN PREVIEW

Isovalent Cilium Enterprise is now available to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) customers in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace marking a key milestone in delivering the expansive eBPF-powered Cilium and Isovalent Cilium Enterprise to Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Virtual Network
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features
17 Apr

General Availability: Azure CNI Overlay

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure CNI Overlay utilizes an overlay network to reduce IP utilization while providing better performance and scale.  

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Virtual Network
  • Features

March 2023

10 Mar

Public preview: Accelerated Connections for Network Virtual Appliances now in Azure Marketplace

IN PREVIEW

Accelerated Connections is a new product that enhances Accelerated Networking enabled vNICs, enabling customers to increase connections per second and improve performance in multiple active connection scenarios.

  • Virtual Network
  • Services
  • Features

October 2022

25 Oct

Generally available: Custom IP Prefixes (BYOIP) now available in US Government regions

NOW AVAILABLE

The ability to bring your own public IP ranges is now available in all US Government regions. Additionally, you can now bring your own IPv6 ranges to use as Public IP Prefixes.

  • Virtual Network
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
13 Oct

General availability: Static IP configurations of private endpoints

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure private endpoint support of statically defined IP addresses is now generally available allowing you to provide static IP addresses when configuring your private endpoints.

  • Azure Private Link
  • Virtual Network
  • Services
  • Security
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
13 Oct

General availability: Custom network interface name configurations of private endpoints

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure private endpoint (PE) support of custom network interface (NIC) names is now generally available. With this feature you can now deploy PE NICs without the GUID suffix.

  • Azure Private Link
  • Virtual Network
  • Services
  • Security
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features

September 2022

15 Sep

Generally available: Resizing of peered virtual networks

NOW AVAILABLE

You can use this feature to resize or update the IP address of your peered virtual networks without removing the peering.

  • Virtual Network
  • Azure Peering Service
  • Services
  • Features

August 2022

17 Aug

General availability: Network security groups support for private endpoints

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2022

Network security groups (NSGs) support for private endpoints is now generally available.

  • Azure Private Link
  • Virtual Network
  • Features
17 Aug

General availability: User-defined routes support for private endpoints

NOW AVAILABLE

User-defined routes (UDRs) support for private endpoints is now generally available.

  • Azure Private Link
  • Virtual Network
  • Features

April 2022

11 Apr

Generally available: Service tags support for user-defined routing

NOW AVAILABLE

Simplify route creation and management by using service tags to represent multiple IP ranges in a single user-defined route.

  • Virtual Network
  • 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

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