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November 2023

Nov 16

General availability: Integration of Azure Monitor Agent support with Connection Monitor

NOW AVAILABLE

Integration of Azure Monitor Agent support in Connection Monitor for monitoring connectivity across ARC enabled endpoints as sources and destinations

  • Network Watcher
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

General availability: Additional Azure ExpressRoute peering locations

NOW AVAILABLE

ExpressRoute lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection with the help of a connectivity provider or a direct connection with ExpressRoute Direct. With ExpressRoute, you can establish connections to Microsoft cloud services, such as Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365.

  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • Services
  • Microsoft Ignite
Nov 15

Azure Virtual Network Manager Security Admin Rule generally available in select regions

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure Virtual Network Manager
  • Services
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Management
  • Features
  • Security
Nov 15

General availability: ExpressRoute Direct and Circuit in different subscriptions

NOW AVAILABLE

ExpressRoute Direct customers can now generate an authorization key for your ExpressRoute Direct resource and use it to make an ExpressRoute Circuit in a different subscription.

  • ExpressRoute Circuits
  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • Services
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

General availability: ExpressRoute as a Trusted Service

NOW AVAILABLE

ExpressRoute customers can now store MACSec secrets in an Azure KeyVault.

  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 8

General availability: Using a common port for public and private listeners

NOW AVAILABLE

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

  • Application Gateway
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
  • Security
Nov 8

General availability: Rate-limit rules for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall

NOW AVAILABLE

Protect applications from abnormally high levels of traffic with rate-limit rules on Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall running on Application Gateway.

  • Application Gateway
  • Web Application Firewall
  • Features
  • Security

October 2023

Oct 31

General availability: Default Rule Set 2.1 for regional WAF with Application Gateway

NOW AVAILABLE

Increase your security posture and reduce false positives with Default Rule Set 2.1, now generally available on the regional WAF with Application Gateway

  • Application Gateway
  • Web Application Firewall
  • Services
  • Features
  • Security
Oct 10

ExpressRoute Traffic Collector is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Use ExpressRoute Traffic Collector to enable collection of flow logs for traffic sent over your ExpressRoute direct circuit.

  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • Features

September 2023

Sep 26

General availability: Gateway Load Balancer IPv6 Support

NOW AVAILABLE

IPv6 support for Gateway Load Balancer is now generally available in all regions, enabling bump-in-the-wire network virtual appliance (NVA) insertion for your dual-stack architectures.

  • Load Balancer
  • Application Gateway
  • Services
  • Features
  • Security
Sep 25

General availability: Domain fronting update on Azure Front Door and Azure CDN

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Front Door supports the use of different values for the TLS SNI extension and the host header, provided that both values are added as domains in the same Azure subscription.

  • Azure Front Door (classic)
  • Content Delivery Network
  • Services
  • Features
  • Security
Sep 14

General availability: Sensitive Data Protection for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall

NOW AVAILABLE

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

  • Application Gateway
  • Web Application Firewall
  • Features
  • Security
Sep 11

Azure Front Door Standard and Premium support bring your own certificated based domain validation

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Front Door Standard and Premium support bring your own certificated based domain validation, streamlining the steps and efforts required to validate domain ownership.

  • Azure Front Door
  • Services
  • Features
  • Security

August 2023

Aug 31

Azure Firewall Single-Click Upgrade and Downgrade is now in general availability

NOW AVAILABLE

This feature allows you to upgrade your firewall without service downtime, with a single click of a button.

  • Azure Firewall
  • Services
  • Features
  • Security
Aug 31

Azure Firewall: Poland Central Region is now in general availability

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Firewall is now generally available in the Poland Central region.

  • Azure Firewall
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
  • Features
  • Security
Aug 24

Quick create Azure Front Door endpoints for Azure Storage accounts

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Storage is announcing native integration with Azure Front Door for content delivery with blob storage as your origin

  • Storage Accounts
  • Azure Front Door
  • Features
  • Security
Aug 18

General availability: Azure Front Door Standard/Premium in Azure Government

NOW AVAILABLE

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
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
  • Security
Aug 14

General availability: New Monitoring and Logging Updates in Azure Firewall

NOW AVAILABLE

Structured Logs and Latency Probe Metric are now in general availability.

  • Azure Firewall
  • Services
  • Features
  • Security
Aug 7

General availability: Illumio for Microsoft Azure Firewall

NOW AVAILABLE

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
  • Features
  • Security

July 2023

Jul 27

Updated default TLS policy for Azure Application Gateway

NOW AVAILABLE

The default TLS policy for new deployments of Azure Application Gateway is now set to AppGwSslPolicy20220101.

  • Application Gateway
  • Services
  • Features
  • Security

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