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Using Azure Virtual Network Manager network groups in security admin rules is now in public preview
Using your Azure Virtual Network Manager network groups in the source and/or destination of security admin rules is now in public preview, enabling users to achieve network isolation across different environments and manage network segments more easily at scale.
Azure Virtual Network Manager Security Admin Rule generally available in 45 regions
Azure Virtual Network Manager's security admin rule configuration is now generally available in 45 regions, empowering users to enforce security rules across their virtual networks globally.
February 2024
Azure Virtual Network Manager security admin rule generally available in 30 regions
Azure Virtual Network Manager's security admin rule configuration is now generally available in 30 regions, empowering users to enforce security rules across their virtual networks globally.
January 2024
Public preview: ExpressRoute guided portal experience for multi-site resiliency
With multi-site resiliency, you can configure your ExpressRoute circuits through more than a single peering location. This helps ensure that your’ private connection to Microsoft remains available even if one of the locations experiences an outage. The experience is targeted at helping you design a highly resilient ExpressRoute solution to connect their on-premises with Microsoft backbone and Azure Virtual Networks.
November 2023
Azure Virtual Network Manager Security Admin Rule generally available in select regions
Azure Virtual Network Manager's security admin rule configuration is now generally available in select regions, empowering users to enforce security rules across their virtual networks globally.
July 2023
General availability: Always Serve for Azure Traffic Manager
Always Serve feature for Azure Traffic Manager (ATM) is now generally available. This feature allows you to disable endpoint health checks from an ATM profile and always serve traffic to that given endpoint.
May 2023
General Availability: Routing Intent and Virtual WAN Integrated Firewall NVAs
Routing intent supports inter-region/inter-hub traffic inspection and branch-to-branch traffic inspection for Azure Virtual WAN.
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.
Public preview: Always Serve for Azure Traffic Manager
Target availability: Q2 2023
We are excited to announce that the AlwaysServe feature for Azure Traffic Manager is now available in Public Preview. This feature allows customers to disable endpoint health checks from an ATM profile and always serve traffic to that given endpoint.
March 2023
General availability: Reserved namespaces for subdomains
Azure Traffic Manager now enables reserving domain labels across all traffic manager profiles.
Generally available: Azure Firewall Basic
Azure Firewall Basic provides cost-effective, enterprise-grade network security for small and medium businesses (SMBs).
November 2022
General availability: Bot Manager Rule Set 1.0 on regional Web Application Firewall
This rule set provides you enhanced protection against bots and provides granular control over bots detected by WAF by categorizing bot traffic as good, bad, or unknown bots.
October 2022
Public preview: Azure Firewall Basic
Azure Firewall Basic provides cost-effective, enterprise-grade network security for small and medium businesses (SMBs).
September 2022
Public preview: Azure Network Policy Manager for Windows server 2022 in AKS
You can now add Azure network policies to Windows 2022 server in AKS.
August 2022
Generally available: Public IP Capability for Azure VMware Solution
Public IP capability on Azure VMware Solution provides internet connectivity for Azure VMware Solution workloads. You can now use NSX-T manager as your security terminating point.
May 2022
General availability: Enhanced IPv6 functionality for MultiValue profiles in Azure Traffic Manager
Azure Traffic Manager now enables you to specify minimum children property separately for IPv4 and IPv6 endpoints for MultiValue profiles.
January 2022
Azure Traffic Manager: Additional IP addresses for endpoint monitoring service.
Update your network access control rules if you see Traffic Manager health probes with new IP addresses.
December 2021
General availability: New capabilities in Network Watcher Diagnostic tools to evaluate AVNM Security rules
Through updates to Network Watcher Diagnostic tools, you now have the ability to view and evaluate AVNM security rules in addition to the existing support of NSG security rules.
July 2021
Announcing the Azure Firewall Premium general availability
Utilize next-generation firewall capabilities in Azure Firewall Premium
HPC Cache on E-Series VMs Support of Blob NFS 3.0 now generally available
Add Azure HPC Cache to support new workloads in Blob NFS 3.0.
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