Azure updates

Public preview: Private subnet

Private subnet is a new feature that allows you to create subnets that prevent the creation of insecure default outbound public IP address creation

• Virtual Network
• IP Addresses
• Microsoft Ignite

Public preview: Azure VNet flow logs

Gain visibility of IP traffic flowing through your Virtual Networks

• Virtual Network
• Services
• Features

Public preview: Azure Virtual Network encryption

Azure Virtual Network encryption allows you to seamlessly encrypt and decrypt traffic between Azure Virtual Machines.

• Virtual Network
• Features

Public Preview: Network Observability add-on on AKS

Enable network observability add-on on AKS clusters to gain insights into how your cluster operate and to identify potential problems before they cause outages or performance degradation.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure Monitor
• Virtual Network
• Services
• Management
• Features

General availability: Azure CNI powered by Cilium

Target availability: Q2 2023

Leverage next generation eBPF dataplane for pod networking, Kubernetes network policies and service load balancing.

• Virtual Network
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Services
• Microsoft Build
• Security
• Features

Generally available: Cross-region service endpoints for Azure Storage

You can now connect Storage Accounts to Virtual Networks in all regions using global service endpoints (cross-region service endpoints).

• Azure Blob Storage
• Azure Data Lake Storage
• Virtual Network
• Features

Public preview: Accelerated Connections for Network Virtual Appliances now in Azure Marketplace

Accelerated Connections is a new product that enhances Accelerated Networking enabled vNICs, enabling customers to increase connections per second and improve performance in multiple active connection scenarios.

• Virtual Network
• Services
• Features

Generally available: Custom IP Prefixes (BYOIP) now available in US Government regions

The ability to bring your own public IP ranges is now available in all US Government regions. Additionally, you can now bring your own IPv6 ranges to use as Public IP Prefixes.

• Virtual Network
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

Generally available: Resizing of peered virtual networks

You can use this feature to resize or update the IP address of your peered virtual networks without removing the peering.

• Virtual Network
• Azure Peering Service
• Services
• Features

General availability: Network security groups support for private endpoints

Target availability: Q3 2022

Network security groups (NSGs) support for private endpoints is now generally available.

• Azure Private Link
• Virtual Network
• Features

Generally available: Service tags support for user-defined routing

Simplify route creation and management by using service tags to represent multiple IP ranges in a single user-defined route.

• Virtual Network
• Features

General availability: Bring your own IP ranges to Azure

Bring your own public IP ranges to Azure to retain existing reputation or to prevent your customers from needing to modify dependencies (e.g. firewalls or other hardcoding) on their network.

• Load Balancer
• Virtual Network
• Features

Public preview: Azure Virtual Network Manager

Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM) is a one-stop shop solution for centralized network management across regions and subscriptions. AVNM allows you to easily create network topologies and high-priority security rules at scale in the public preview.

• Azure Virtual Network Manager
• Virtual Network
• Security
• Microsoft Ignite

Public preview of Private Link UDR Support

User Defined Routes support on Private Endpoint will make configuring custom routes to traffic destined to a Private Endpoint easier for your large workloads. Learn more about how to use this feature in select regions.

• Azure Private Link
• Virtual Network
• Services
• Security
• Features