Azure updates

General availability: Illumio for Microsoft Azure Firewall

Illumio for Azure Firewall enables organizations to understand application traffic and dependencies and apply consistent protection across environments - limiting exposure, containing breaches, and improving efficiency.

• Azure Firewall
• Services
• Security
• Features

Public preview: Azure Application Gateway for Containers

Application Gateway for Containers is the next evolution to Application Gateway's Ingress Controller; bringing performance, scale, deployment, and feature enhancements.

• Application Gateway
• Security
• Features

Public Preview: Firmware analysis in Defender for IoT

Target availability: Q3 2023

The new firmware analysis feature in Defender for IoT enables security teams to get deeper visibility into IoT/OT devices by providing better insights into the foundational software they are built on.

• Security
• Features

Public preview: Sensitive Data Protection for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall logs

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

• Application Gateway
• Web Application Firewall
• Security
• Features

Public preview: Using a common port for public and private listeners

Easily manage public-facing and private-facing traffic on a common port.

• Application Gateway
• Security
• Features

General availability of Azure Front Door integration with managed identities

Azure Front Door supports using managed identity to access Key Vault without the need to generate, store, and rotate secrets. This is a secure service to service authentication method to enhance security.

• Azure Front Door
• Security
• Features

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.

• Azure Front Door (classic)
• Azure Front Door
• Services
• Security
• Features

General availability: Azure Front Door upgrade from standard to premium

Upgrade from standard to premium for enhanced Web Application Firewall rules and private connectivity to your origins using Private Link.

• Azure Front Door
• Services
• Security
• Features

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.

• Azure Front Door
• Services
• Security
• Features

Generally available: Private Link support for Application Gateway

Application Gateway Private Link allows you to connect your workloads over a private connection spanning across VNets and subscriptions

• Application Gateway
• Azure Private Link
• Services
• Security
• Features

Microsoft Azure Payment HSM Service now supports two host IP network interfaces

Azure Payment HSM Service now supports two host IP network interfaces

• Azure Payment HSM
• Services
• Security
• Features

Generally available: Policy analytics for Azure Firewall

Policy analytics for Azure Firewall, now in general availability, provides enhanced visibility into traffic flowing through Azure Firewall, enabling the optimization of your firewall configuration without impacting your application performance.

• Azure Firewall
• Services
• Security
• Features

General Availability: App Configuration geo-replication

Replicate your application configuration data across supported regions to create redundancy, reduce latency, and distribute request load.

• App Configuration
• Security
• Features

General availability: IP Protection SKU for Azure DDoS Protection

IP Protection provides cost-effective, enterprise-grade DDoS protection designed to meet the needs of SMB.

• Azure DDoS Protection
• Services
• Security

Public preview: Private Application Gateway v2

Target availability: Q1 2023

Application Gateway v2 is introducing support for private IP only frontend configurations, enhanced control over NSG rules, and support for forced tunneling/route table rules to virtual appliances.

• Application Gateway
• Security
• Features