Azure updates

General availability: Listener TLS certificates management in the Azure portal

You can now manage the TLS certificates associated with Listeners through Azure portal.

• Application Gateway
• Security
• Services
• Management
• Features

General availability: Gateway Load Balancer IPv6 Support

IPv6 support for Gateway Load Balancer is now generally available in all regions, enabling bump-in-the-wire network virtual appliance (NVA) insertion for your dual-stack architectures.

• Load Balancer
• Application Gateway
• Security
• Services
• Features

Azure’s cross-region Load Balancer is now generally available

Azure Load Balancer support for cross-region load balancing is now generally available. You can now load balance across Azure regions enabling a globally redundant architecture via Azure Load Balancer.

• Load Balancer
• Services
• Features

General availability: Inbound ICMPv6 pings and traceroute are now supported on Azure Load Balancer

Ping and traceroute to both IPv4 and IPv6 frontend of a Standard Public Load Balancer like you natively would on an on-premises device without any external software needed.

• Load Balancer
• Features

General availability: Inbound ICMPv4 pings are now supported on Azure Load Balancer

Inbound ICMPv4 pings are now supported on Azure Load Balancer.

• Load Balancer
• Features

Public preview: Listener TLS certificates management available in the Azure portal

You can now manage the TLS certificates associated with Listeners through Azure portal.

• Application Gateway
• Security
• Services
• Management
• Features

Azure Basic Load Balancer will be retired on 30 September 2025—upgrade to Standard Load Balancer

Target retirement date: September 30, 2025

Basic Load Balancer will be retired.

• Load Balancer
• Retirements

General availability: Next hop IP support for Route Server

Target availability: Q3 2022

Peer Route Server with network virtual appliances (NVAs) deployed behind an Azure Internal Load Balancer (ILB).

• Azure Route Server
• Services

Generally available: Azure Gateway Load Balancer

Gateway Load Balancer enables you to deploy, scale, and enhance the availability of third party network virtual appliances (NVAs) in Azure with ease.

• Load Balancer
• Services
• Features

General availability: Inbound NAT rule now supports port management for backend pools

You can now specify target backend pool in inbound NAT rule for less management overhead when configuring port forwarding.

• Load Balancer
• Features

Generally available: Load Balancer SKU upgrade through PowerShell script

Upgrade to Standard SKU Load Balancer easily through a simple PowerShell script and take advantage of enhanced capabilities.

• Load Balancer
• Features

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

• Load Balancer
• Microsoft Ignite
• Services

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.

• Network Infrastructure
• Services

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.

• Load Balancer
• Features

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.

• IP Addresses
• Load Balancer
• Features

Standard Load Balancer and Public IP addresses support resource group move

Standard Load Balancers and Standard Public IP addresses support cross resource group moves enabling easy management of resources at the resource group level.

• Load Balancer
• IP Addresses
• Features

Traffic Analytics & Diagnostics capabilities in Azure Monitor for Networks

Azure Monitor for Network provides the starting point for network monitoring without any user configuration and provides access to all available network monitoring capabilities.

• Azure Monitor
• Network Watcher
• Features