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Public preview: ExpressRoute private peering support for BGP communities
This support for BGP community tags on traffic sent from Azure to on-premises over ExpressRoute enables customers to set routing preferences and pursue a greater variety of hybrid network designs.
Public preview: ExpressRoute FastPath improvements
ExpressRoute FastPath now supports more network scenarios, enabling customers with more complex Azure environments to unlock the benefits of FastPath.
Gateway Load Balancer now in public preview
Gateway Load Balancer enables you to deploy, scale, and enhance the availability of third party network virtual appliances (NVAs) in Azure with ease
October 2021
Extended regional availability for Private Link NSG Support
Private Link NSG public preview support has extended regional availability to Asiaeast, Australiaeast, Japaneast, Canadacentral, Europenorth, Koreacentral, Brazilsouth, Uksouth, US South, US North, France Central.
Extended regional availability for Private Link UDR Support
Private Link Network Security Group public preview support has extended regional availability to Asiaeast, Australiaeast, Japaneast, Canadacentral, Europenorth, Koreacentral, Brazilsouth, Uksouth, US South, US North, France Central
September 2021
Public preview of Private Link UDR Support
User Defined Routes support on Private Endpoint will make configuring custom routes to traffic destined to a Private Endpoint easier for your large workloads. Learn more about how to use this feature in select regions.
Public preview of Private Link Network Security Group Support
Network Security Group support on Private Endpoint (PE) will allow you to improve granular security requirements for traffic destined to a private endpoint. This will assist in meeting specific compliance and security requirements for managing your PE powered workloads.
General availability: Azure Route Server
Azure Route Server enables network appliances to exchange route information with Azure virtual networks dynamically.
August 2021
Public preview: Address changes on an Azure virtual network that has active peerings
You can now update your virtual network address space without needing to remove the peering links on their virtual networking and incurring any downtime.
July 2021
General availability: Built-in Azure Policy support for Network Watcher Traffic Analytics
Traffic Analytics can now be enabled using Built-in Azure Policy, thus improving your deployment experience. Now organizations can enforce org wide standards and manage traffic monitoring at scale using these policies.
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.
Azure Bastion Standard SKU public preview
Azure Bastion Standard SKU offers key capabilities for enterprises, unblocking critical customer scenarios.
June 2021
VPN NAT now in public preview
Azure VPN Gateway NAT (Network Address Translation) can be used to connect on-premises networks or branch offices to an Azure virtual network with overlapping IP addresses.
May 2021
General availability: VNET peering support for Azure Bastion
You can now deploy Azure Bastion in a peered Virtual Network (VNet), enabling RDP/SSH connectivity to virtual machines deployed in a peered Virtual network (VNet)
March 2021
Public preview: Service Tags for User Defined Routing
Simplify route creation and management by using Service Tags to represent multiple IP ranges in a single route. Utilize over 60 tags representing ranges for Microsoft and Azure service.
Azure Routing Preference is now generally available
Choice matters when it comes to cloud. Routing preference enables network service tiers for internet bound traffic, letting you to optimize for performance or cost.
Azure Load Balancer support for IP-based backend pool management is now generally 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.
February 2021
Standard Load Balancer and IP addresses metadata now available through Azure Instance Metadata Service (IMDS)
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.
January 2021
Public IP SKU upgrade generally 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.
December 2020
Private Link support for Azure Automation is now generally available
Ensure a secure channel to connect to your Automation Accounts resources with the help of Private Links in Automation.
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