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Generally available: DNS reservations to prevent subdomain takeover in Cloud Services deployments
Target availability: Q2 2022
As a preventive measure, DNS record is reserved for seven days to allow clean-up of dangling DNS domains or reclaim from same Azure Active Directory tenant only.
March 2022
Generally available: The new Azure Front Door – a modern cloud CDN service
Azure Front Door is a modern cloud CDN that enables you to accelerate the delivery of applications, APIs, and content on Azure or anywhere at scale.
February 2022
General availability: Azure Sphere version 22.02 expected on Feb 28, 2022
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period for 22.02 provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing.
January 2022
General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 22.01 expected on Jan 26
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing.
November 2021
General availability: Run Oracle WebLogic Server on Azure Container Service
An automated solution template to run Oracle WebLogic Server (WLS) on Azure Container Service (AKS), jointly developed with Oracle, is now available in the Azure Marketplace.
August 2021
General availability: Public DNS support for private Azure Kubernetes Service clusters
Simplify name resolution to your AKS clusters without compromising your Kubernetes API server security.
Private DNS zone integration for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server in public preview
Private DNS zone integration is now available for Flexible Server on Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open source Postgres database.
Private DNS integration zone integration for Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server in public preview
Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server now supports private DNS zone integration in preview.
July 2021
General availability: Public IP information and inter-zone traffic among many new insights in Traffic Analytics
Azure Network Watcher Traffic Analytics solutions is used to monitor network traffic. It now provides WHOIS and Geographic data for all Public IPs interacting with your deployments and further adds DNS domain, threat type & threat description for Malicious IPs. Now, it also supports inter-zone traffic and VMSS level traffic insights.
General availability: Transition to Cloud Services (extended support) with new migration tool
Accelerate your transition to Cloud Services (extended support) in Azure Resource Manager (ARM) using the new tool that provides a seamless and fully orchestrated migration of your Cloud Services (classic) deployments.
IoT Hub IP address change notification
IoT Hub will be updating the underlying infrastructure and will go through an internal service update. The update will change the underlying DNS record for IoT Hub, resulting in a change of the IP address.
June 2021
Azure Security Center: General availability updates for May 2021
New enhancements and updates released for general availability (GA) in Azure Security Center in May 2021.
May 2021
Azure Security Center: Public preview updates for April 2021
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure Security Center in April 2021.
April 2021
Public preview: Announcing platform support migration of Azure Cloud Services (classic) to Azure Resource Manager
Seamless, fully orchestrated, no downtime for most scenarios and minimal effort migration path for your existing Cloud Services (classic) deployments.
March 2021
General availability: New Simplified NSX networking experience for Azure VMware Solution
Azure VMware Solution helps simplify migration to the cloud by running VMware environments natively on Azure. With the new simplified NSX networking experience, it is now easier for VMware administrators to execute networking operations for Azure VMware Solution from the Azure portal.
February 2021
Azure Security Center—General availability updates for January 2021
New general availability enhancements and updates made to Azure Security Center in January 2021.
January 2021
Azure Security Center—News and updates for December 2020
New enhancements and updates made to Azure Security Center in December 2020.
November 2020
Multiple new features for Azure VPN Gateway are now generally available
Take advantage of multiple new enhancements and features that are now generally available in Azure VPN Gateway.
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.
October 2020
Multiple new features for Azure VPN Gateway in public preview
Take advantage of multiple new enhancements and features that are now available in Azure VPN Gateway.
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