Azure updates

General availability: ExpressRoute as a Trusted Service

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

• Azure ExpressRoute
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

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

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

• Application Gateway
• Security
• Services
• Management
• Features

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

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
• Security
• Features

ExpressRoute Traffic Collector is now generally available

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

• Azure ExpressRoute
• Features

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

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
• Security
• Services
• Features

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

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
• Security
• Features

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

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
• Security
• Services
• Features

Azure Firewall: Poland Central Region is now in general availability

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

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

Quick create Azure Front Door endpoints for Azure Storage accounts

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

• Storage Accounts
• Azure Front Door
• Security
• Features

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

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
• Security
• Regions & Datacenters
• Services

General availability: New Monitoring and Logging Updates in Azure Firewall

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

• Azure Firewall
• Security
• Services
• Features

General availability: Illumio for Microsoft Azure Firewall

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
• Security
• Services
• Features

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.

• Traffic Manager
• Features

General availability: ExpressRoute private peering support for BGP communities

Target availability: Q3 2023

Set BGP community tags on traffic sent from Azure to on-premises over ExpressRoute, enabling a greater variety of hybrid network designs.

• Azure ExpressRoute
• Services
• Features

Azure’s cross-region Load Balancer is now generally available

Azure Load Balancer support for cross-region load balancing is now generally available. You can now load balance across Azure regions enabling a globally redundant architecture via Azure Load Balancer.

• Load Balancer
• Services
• Features