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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.
October 2020
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.
September 2020
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.
Preview: Azure Load Balancer now supports cross-region load balancing
Azure Load Balancer now supports load balancing across regions based on health and latency.
August 2020
Upcoming changes to Standard Public IPs and Standard Load Balancers
The zone related behavior in Standard Public IP address and Standard Load Balancer is being changed.
Release of new Azure CDN (Microsoft Standard) capability
The Azure CDN service, a distributed network of servers that can efficiently deliver web content to users, now supports multiple origins.
July 2020
Introducing Azure Load Balancer Insights using Azure Monitor for Networks
Azure Load Balancer customers now have instant access to a preconfigured solution for health monitoring and configuration analysis enabling rapid fault localization and informed design decisions.
Azure Load Balancer support for IP-based backend pool management is in preview
Azure Load Balancer now supports adding and removing resources from a backend pool via an IPv4 or IPv6 addresses and virtual network ID. This will enable you to easily manage the containers, virtual machines, and virtual machine scale sets associated with their load balancer. It will also allow IP addresses to be reserved as part of a backend pool before the associated resources are created.
April 2020
IPv6 for Azure Virtual Network is now generally available
IPv6 for Azure Virtual Network is now generally available worldwide. IPv6 support within the Azure Virtual Network and to the internet enables you to expand into the growing mobile and IoT markets with Azure-based applications and to address IPv4 depletion in your own corporate networks.
March 2020
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.
February 2020
Azure Load Balancer TCP resets on idle timeout is now available
Azure Load Balancer TCP resets on idle timeout is now generally available in all Azure regions.
July 2019
Microsoft adds new features to IPv6 support for Azure VNets
IPv6 for Azure VNETs enables you to expand into the growing mobile and IoT markets with your Azure-based applications and to address IPv4 depletion in your own networks.
May 2019
Improvements to the Azure portal user experience are now available
Announcing exciting updates that improve the user experience in the Azure portal
April 2019
Azure Application Gateway Standard v2 and WAF v2 SKUs generally available
Azure Application Gateway Standard v2 and WAF v2 SKUs are now generally available and fully supported with a 99.95 SLA.
Public Preview: Microsoft adds full IPv6 support for Azure VNets
Dual Stack IPv4/IPv6 Connectivity allows you to bring your private IPv6 space into Azure and enables connectivity over IPv6 within your Virtual Networks.
Azure Front Door Service is now available
Azure Front Door Service has entered general availability and is now fully supported with a 99.99 percent SLA.
Azure Firewall is now available in Azure Government
Azure Firewall Service is now generally available in Azure Government, and has been generally available in all Azure public regions since September 2018.
March 2019
Global VNet Peering now supports Standard Load Balancer
Global VNet Peering now supports Standard Load Balancer in all Azure regions, including Azure China and Azure Government regions.
January 2019
General availability: Standard Load Balancer and Standard Public IP in Azure Government
Azure Standard Load Balancer and Standard Public IP are now generally available in Azure Government cloud regions.
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