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General availability: Azure Front Door Standard/Premium in Azure Government
Azure Front Door Standard/Premium is the new Azure native, modern cloud content delivery network (CDN) catering to both dynamic and static content delivery acceleration with enhanced security and a simple and predictable pricing model.
June 2023
General availability: Azure Front Door Migration from classic to standard/premium
Azure Front Door Standard/Premium is the new Azure native, modern cloud content delivery network (CDN) catering to both dynamic and static content delivery acceleration with enhanced security and a simple and predictable pricing model.
Public preview: Azure Front Door Standard/Premium in Azure Government
Azure Front Door Standard/Premium is the new Azure native, modern cloud content delivery network (CDN) catering to both dynamic and static content delivery acceleration with enhanced security and a simple and predictable pricing model.
November 2022
Public preview: Azure Front Door zero downtime migration
You can use this feature to migrate Azure Front Door (classic) to Azure Front Door Standard and Premium with zero downtime.
August 2022
Generally available: Enterprise-grade edge for Azure Static Web Apps
Azure Static Web Apps now offers faster page loads, enhanced security, and reliability for your global applications.
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.
January 2022
Public preview: Azure Static Web Apps enterprise-grade edge
Extend your Static Web App with a zero-config enterprise-grade edge powered by Azure Front Door.
March 2021
General availability: Azure Media Services – HEVC encoding support in Standard Encoder
You can now use High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) or H.265 in the Standard Encoder. This new feature is available for Content Aware encoding, Adaptive Bitrate encoding, and creating your own custom transforms. Using HEVC along with supported decoding devices will provide you with the ability to deliver streaming content at reduced bitrates while maintaining the same video quality compared to H.264/AVC. This in turn will help reduce overall delivery costs through a CDN, and allow your viewers to receive higher quality streams on constrained networks.
October 2020
Raw Logs and Metrics are generally available on Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) from Microsoft CDN
New options for analytics on Azure CDN are now available to unblock more scenarios for you
June 2020
Azure Content Delivery Network standard rules engine is now available
Take advantage of new rules to further customize the behavior of standard Azure Content Delivery Network to best meet the needs of your customers. Use the rules engine to modify request and response headers or dynamically override your existing route behavior based on incoming requests. Now generally available with the ability to add additional rules. The first five rules are free.
May 2020
Azure Content Delivery Network from Verizon Rules Engine is upgrading to V4
Azure Content Delivery Network from Verizon is upgrading from version 3 (V3) to version 4 (v4). No downtime or end user impact is anticipated.
March 2020
Azure Web Application Firewall for Azure Content Delivery Network is in preview
Protect your web applications from common exploits and vulnerabilities with Web Application Firewall for Azure Content Delivery Network. Web Application Firewall is already natively integrated with Azure Application Gateway and Azure Front Door services.
Azure Front Door—March 2020 updates
Azure Front Door is a cloud-native modern content delivery network offering that enables customers to improve their apps for performance, security, availability, and scalability by providing a high-performant and low-latency network, web application firewall, global load balancing, SSL offload, and TCP/SSL optimizations. Several new capabilities for Front Door are now generally available.
Http Raw logs for Azure Content Delivery Network
Azure Content Delivery Network now supports HTTP raw logs.
November 2019
Azure CDN Standard Rules Engine preview update
Portal support for Azure CDN Standard rules engine is now available as part of the preview.
May 2019
Rules engine for Azure Content Delivery Network is now in preview
Rules engine for Azure Content Delivery Network allows you to customize Content Delivery Network behavior on a per HTTP request basis to optimize delivery of your content to your end users.
April 2019
New features and network expansion for Azure Content Delivery Network
Azure Content Delivery Network has added new security and usability features as well as additional capacity.
September 2018
Azure CDN Standard Microsoft tier Generally Available
Using Azure CDN’s multi-CDN platform you can use CDN services from Verizon, Akamai and now Microsoft all in one place through familiar Azure Portal, ARM, CLI and command line experiences. Deep integration with Azure services quickly lets you spin up CDN with your web app, storage or any service you choose.
July 2018
Azure Content Delivery Network GUID migration and UoM change
You currently receive 1,024 bytes in every KB of data when you use Content Delivery Network. Starting September 1, 2018, you'll receive 1,000 bytes in every KB of data.
May 2017
Azure Content Delivery Network standard Microsoft tier
Now in preview, the Azure Content Delivery Network standard Microsoft tier makes Microsoft’s own global Edge and content delivery network available to Azure customers. .
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