Azure updates

General availability: Rate-limit rules for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall

Protect applications from abnormally high levels of traffic with rate-limit rules on Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall running on Application Gateway.

• Application Gateway
• Web Application Firewall
• Security
• Features

Public preview: Application Gateway IPv6 support

Azure Application Gateway v2 enables dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) connectivity from the clients, providing more flexible and reliable access to the backend Applications.

• Application Gateway
• Security
• Services
• Features

Public preview: Announcing the new Azure Bastion Developer SKU

The Bastion Developer SKU represents a novel, cost-effective, and streamlined version of the Bastion service.

• Azure Bastion
• Security
• Services
• Features

Microsoft Security email update and Resources for Azure AD rename to Microsoft Entra ID

Microsoft Entra ID is the new name for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). The rename and new product icon are being rolled out across experiences from Microsoft. Most updates will be complete by mid-November of this year. Resources are also now available to support the renaming of your product experiences. Additionally, Identity emails will now be sent from Microsoft Security (MSSecurity-noreply@microsoft.com). The emails are currently coming from Microsoft Azure (azure-noreply@microsoft.com). You may need to update Outlook rules as a result.

• Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)
• Security
• Features

Changes to My Groups admin controls

Target retirement date: June 30, 2024

New settings will enable admins to restrict end users from viewing and editing security groups in My Groups. The existing settings that allow enabling or disabling of My Groups will be retired in June 2024.

• Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)
• Security
• Retirements

General availability: Domain fronting update on Azure Front Door and Azure CDN

Azure Front Door supports the use of different values for the TLS SNI extension and the host header, provided that both values are added as domains in the same Azure subscription.

• Azure Front Door (classic)
• Content Delivery Network
• Security
• Services
• Features

General Availability: Malware Scanning in Defender for Storage

Target availability: Q3 2023

Malware Scanning in Defender for Storage enables organizations to detect and prevent malware distribution events with content scanning upon upload and near real-time malware detection powered by Microsoft Defender Antivirus technologies.

• Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Microsoft Defender
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Security
• Services
• Pricing & Offerings
• Features

General availability: Sensitive Data Protection for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall

Protect the sensitive data getting stored in your Web Application Firewall (WAF) using log scrubbing on Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall running on Application Gateway.

• Application Gateway
• Web Application Firewall
• Security
• Features

Azure Front Door Standard and Premium support bring your own certificated based domain validation

Azure Front Door Standard and Premium support bring your own certificated based domain validation, streamlining the steps and efforts required to validate domain ownership.

• Azure Front Door
• Security
• Services
• Features

Azure Firewall: Poland Central Region is now in general availability

Azure Firewall is now generally available in the Poland Central region.

• Azure Firewall
• Security
• Regions & Datacenters
• Services
• Features

Azure Firewall: Explicit Proxy is now in public preview

This configuration allows traffic from the sending application to be directed to the private IP address of the firewall, facilitating direct egress from the firewall without the need for a UDR.

• Azure Firewall
• Security
• Services
• Features

Azure Firewall: Auto-Learn SNAT routes feature is now in public preview

Azure Firewall can now learn address ranges and automatically configure them to be excluded from SNAT, to reduce time and complexity spent manually defining SNAT private ranges.

• Azure Firewall
• Security
• Services
• Features

Azure App Configuration - public preview release of snapshots feature

Key-value pairs from App Config store ensure controlled deployments.

• App Configuration
• Security
• Features

Quick create Azure Front Door endpoints for Azure Storage accounts

Azure Storage is announcing native integration with Azure Front Door for content delivery with blob storage as your origin

• Storage Accounts
• Azure Front Door
• Security
• Features

Public preview: Rate-limit rules for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall

Protect applications from abnormally high levels of traffic with rate-limit rules on Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall running on Application Gateway.

• Application Gateway
• Web Application Firewall
• Security
• Features

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.

• Azure Front Door
• Security
• Regions & Datacenters
• Services