Networking

Eight ways in which Azure infrastructure can help you improve cash flow, achieve cost savings, increase operational efficiencies, and unify security and management.

Scale, resiliency, and performance do not happen overnight—it takes sustained and deliberate investment, day over day, and a performance-first mindset to build products that delight our users.

To two new key features in Azure Firewall, forced tunneling and SQL, FQDN filtering, are now generally available. Additionally, we increased the limit for multiple public IP addresses from 100 to 250 for both Destination Network Address Translation (DNAT) and Source Network Address Translation (SNAT).

Last week at the Microsoft Build conference, we announced that Azure Peering Service is now generally available. We also introduced “routing preference,” a new option for our customers to further architect and optimize their traffic to and from Azure over the “public Internet.

Starting today, customers of Azure Front Door (AFD) can take advantage of new rules to further customize their AFD behavior to best meet the needs of their customers.

Today, many of our customers in regulated industries are adopting a Zero Trust architecture, moving to a security model that more effectively adapts to the complexity of the modern environment, embraces the mobile workforce, and protects people, devices, applications, and data wherever they’re located.

Work from home policies require many IT organizations to address fundamental changes in capacity, network, security, and governance.

A shift to remote work is one of the widespread effects of the global pandemic, and we heard from organizations around the world who are looking for ways to enable more of their employees to work remotely for their safety and that of the community.

Today we’re announcing new, transformative advances we’re making to combine the power of Azure, 5G, carriers, and operators around the world to enable new scenarios for our developers, customers, and partners, with the preview of Azure Edge Zones.

Azure Container Registry announces preview support for Azure Private Link, a means to limit network traffic of resources within the Azure network.

Last November we introduced Microsoft Azure Firewall Manager preview for Azure Firewall policy and route management in secured virtual hubs.

Today, we are excited to share several new Azure Firewall capabilities based on your top feedback items: