Azure updates

Public preview: Application Gateway Mutual Authentication

Application Gateway now supports fronted mutual authentication and listener specific SSL policies.

• Application Gateway
• Security
• Features

General availability: Application Gateway URL Rewrite

Application Gateway now supports hosting friendly URLs and routing based on query string values.

• Application Gateway
• Security
• Features

Azure Application Gateway analytics will be retired on 29 February 2024

Target retirement date: February 29, 2024

Transition to Azure Monitor Network Insights workbook.

• Application Gateway
• Azure Monitor
• Security
• Retirements

Revocation of non-compliant Certificate Authorities potentially impacting customer’s Azure service(s).

Recent reports detailed Certificate Authorities that were not compliant with industry standards for trusted CAs. As per industry requirements, non-compliant CAs are being revoked requiring customers certificates to be re-issued.

• App Service
• API Management
• Application Gateway
• Content Delivery Network
• Azure Front Door (classic)
• Security
• Management
• Compliance

Azure Application Gateway Web Application Firewall custom rules are now Generally Available

Custom Rules for Azure Application Gateway Web Application Firewall are now generally available.

• Application Gateway
• Security
• Features

Improvements to the Azure portal user experience are now available

Announcing exciting updates that improve the user experience in the Azure portal

• Microsoft Azure portal
• Azure Resource Graph
• Application Gateway
• Activity Log
• Security
• Management

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.

• Application Gateway
• Security
• Features

Application Gateway Autoscaling in preview

Azure Application Gateway is an application delivery controller-as-a-service offering that provides layer 7 load balancing, security, and web application firewall functionality. Autoscaling functionality is available in preview as part of the new zone redundant SKU in all public Azure regions.

• Application Gateway
• Security
• Services

Azure networking available only in the Azure portal from October 4

Azure Networking features will be available only in the Azure portal from October 4th, 2017. Networking related feature support from the classic Portal will be deprecated starting October 4th.

• Network Watcher
• Azure ExpressRoute
• Load Balancer
• Virtual Network
• VPN Gateway
• Application Gateway
• Security
• Features

General availability: Web Application Firewall

Web Application Firewall is generally available as part of the WAF tier on Application Gateway. This is available in all Azure public regions.

• Application Gateway
• Security

Public preview: Application Gateway web application firewall

Application Gateway announces the public preview of web application firewall (WAF) functionality as part of new WAF tier. This is available in all Azure regions.

• Application Gateway
• Security

General availability: Azure Application Gateway

Azure Application Gateway helps you build highly scalable and available applications by providing application-level (HTTP/HTTPS) load balancing and delivery control.

• Application Gateway
• Security
• Services