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General availability: Feature enhancements to Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Azure’s WAF now supports multiple new features - SQLi and XSS detection queries, new built-in Azure policies, and increased exclusions limit with support for exclusions on bot manager rule set.
November 2022
General availability: 12 months free services for new Azure PAYG customers
With an Azure free account, you can explore with free amounts of 55+ always free services.
General availability: TLS 1.3 with Application Gateway
Start using the new policies with TLS 1.3 for your Azure Application Gateway to improve security and performance.
General availability: Per Rule Actions on regional Web Application Firewall
Azure's regional Web Application Firewall on Application Gateway now supports customizing actions per rule. This new functionality allows you greater control over how the Web Application Firewall handles incoming traffic.
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.
Generally available: Block domain fronting behavior on newly created customer resources
All newly created Azure Front Door, Azure Front Door (classic) or Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) resources will block any HTTP request that exhibits domain fronting behavior.
General availability: Default Rule Set 2.1 for Azure Web Application Firewall
Increase your security posture and reduce false positives with Default Rule Set 2.1, now generally available on Azure's global Web Application Firewall running on Azure Front Door.
October 2022
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.
General availability: Static IP configurations of private endpoints
Azure private endpoint support of statically defined IP addresses is now generally available allowing you to provide static IP addresses when configuring your private endpoints.
General availability: Custom network interface name configurations of private endpoints
Azure private endpoint (PE) support of custom network interface (NIC) names is now generally available. With this feature you can now deploy PE NICs without the GUID suffix.
General availability: Azure DNS Private Resolver – hybrid name resolution and conditional forwarding
Seamlessly perform conditional forwarding from on-prem to Azure Private DNS Zones and from Azure Virtual Networks to any target DNS server.
September 2022
General availability: Improvements to Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) custom rules
Target availability: Q3 2022
Azure regional Web Application Firewall (WAF) supports operators “Any” and “GreaterThanOrEqual”, improving WAF tuning capabilities. Azure's global WAF now supports geo-match filtering using the socket address in addition to remote address.
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.
August 2022
General availability: ExpressRoute IPv6 Support for Global Reach
IPv6 support for Global Reach expands the possibilities for customers building dual-stack, hybrid networks with Azure.
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.
General availability: User-defined routes support for private endpoints
User-defined routes (UDRs) support for private endpoints is now generally available.
Azure Firewall Premium is now ICSA labs certified
Azure Firewall Premium Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) certification from ICSA Labs is now available.
General availability: Next hop IP support for Route Server
Target availability: Q3 2022
Peer Route Server with network virtual appliances (NVAs) deployed behind an Azure Internal Load Balancer (ILB).
July 2022
Generally available: Azure Gateway Load Balancer
Gateway Load Balancer enables you to deploy, scale, and enhance the availability of third party network virtual appliances (NVAs) in Azure with ease.
June 2022
General availability: Azure WAF policy and DDoS management in Azure Firewall Manager
Azure Firewall Manager supports the ability to manage DDoS Protection plans and Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) policies for workloads and applications, within a centralized place, at scale.
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