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Azure Private Link Services available in China
Azure Private Link now includes multiple new services available in all China Regions
Additional Azure SQL Database gateways changes effective October 12, 2020
Additional SQL Gateways are being added for Azure SQL Database in Germany West Central effective 12 October 2020.
Azure DNS: Introducing automatic child zone delegation
A new Azure DNS update released to general availability in all clouds makes it easier for our customers to create child zones which are easily attached to parent zones.
August 2020
Azure SQL Database gateways changes effective September 15, 2020
Beginning September 15, 2020, new & existing Azure SQL Database gateways in multiple regions will start accepting traffic
Additional Azure SQL Database gateways changes effective September 10, 2020
Additional SQL Gateways are being added for Azure SQL Database in West Central US and South Africa North effective 10 September 2020.
Azure SQL Database gateways changes effective September 2020
Beginning September 1, 2020, new Azure SQL Database gateways in multiple regions will start accepting traffic
July 2020
Generally available: Azure Private Link for Azure SignalR Service
Use private endpoint to connect to Azure SignalR Service.
New Azure SQL Database gateways in Australia East, Canada Central, and West US 2
New Azure SQL Database gateways are being added to Australia East, Canada Central, and West US 2 regions and will start accepting traffic on August 10, 2020.
June 2020
Azure Firewall July 2020 update
Custom DNS, DNS Proxy, and FQDN filtering in network rules are now in preview. IP Groups and IP Groups in Firewall policy are now generally available.
Azure Automation updated DNS records
Target availability: Q2 2020
To support new features in Azure Automation, like Azure Private Links, the automation URLs have been updated. Instead of region-specific URLs, there are now account-specific URLs.
Azure Storage account failover is now generally available
Customer-initiated Storage account failover is now generally available, allowing you to determine when to initiate a failover instead of waiting for Microsoft to do so.
Azure Private Link for Azure Batch is now generally available in select regions
Azure Private Link for Azure Batch is now generally available in the West US 2, East US, South Central US, US Gov Virginia, and US Gov Arizona regions
Azure API Management updates—June 2020
A regular Azure API Management service update was started on June 10, 2020, and included new features, bug fixes, and changes, along with other improvements.
CNI security vulnerability in older AKS clusters and mitigation steps
Find out if you are impacted by an identified CNI vulnerability in older AKS clusters and take mitigation steps to address it.
May 2020
Azure Private Link is now available for multiple new Azure services
Azure Private Link now supports multiple new Azure services in general availability and preview.
Azure Private Link is now generally available in US Government regions
Azure Private Link now includes multiple new services available in GA.
April 2020
Azure Virtual Network now supports reverse DNS lookup
Azure Virtual Network now supports reverse DNS lookup (PTR DNS queries) for virtual machine IP addresses by default.
March 2020
Announcing Azure Private Link GA for Azure Services
Azure Private Link now includes multiple new services available in Preview and GA.
Azure DNS private zones preview API is being deprecated
During public preview release, private DNS zones were created using dnszones ARM resource with zoneType property set to Private. The GA resource model makes use of privateDnsZones resource type instead of dnszones. Support for zones created using the preview API will be completely removed on June 30, 2020 and you must immediately migrate these private DNS zones to the latest resource model.
February 2020
Azure DNS private zones is now available in Azure Government and Azure China
Azure DNS private zones is now generally available in Azure Government and Azure China regions. With the general availability, you can now use private DNS zones for DNS resolution across one or more…
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