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June 2023

Jun 12

General availability: Azure Front Door Migration from classic to standard/premium

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 (classic)
  • Azure Front Door
  • Services
  • Security
  • Features
Jun 12

General availability: Azure Front Door upgrade from standard to premium

NOW AVAILABLE

Upgrade from standard to premium for enhanced Web Application Firewall rules and private connectivity to your origins using Private Link.

  • Azure Front Door
  • Services
  • Security
  • Features
Jun 8

General availability: Inbound ICMPv6 pings and traceroute are now supported on Azure Load Balancer

NOW AVAILABLE

Ping and traceroute to both IPv4 and IPv6 frontend of a Standard Public Load Balancer like you natively would on an on-premises device without any external software needed.

  • Load Balancer
  • Features
Jun 6

Generally available: Private Link support for Application Gateway

NOW AVAILABLE

Application Gateway Private Link allows you to connect your workloads over a private connection spanning across VNets and subscriptions

  • Application Gateway
  • Azure Private Link
  • Services
  • Security
  • Features
Jun 1

General Availability: Isovalent Cilium Enterprise through Azure Marketplace

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2023

Isovalent Cilium Enterprise is now generally available through Azure Marketplace.

  • Virtual Network
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Services
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
Jun 1

General availability: Azure Load Balancer per VM limit removal

NOW AVAILABLE

Increase resiliency, higher availability, and flexibility by utilizing more than 2 Standard Load Balancers per VM.

  • Load Balancer
  • Features

May 2023

May 30

General availability: Azure CNI powered by Cilium

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2023

Leverage next generation eBPF dataplane for pod networking, Kubernetes network policies and service load balancing.

  • Virtual Network
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Services
  • Microsoft Build
  • Security
  • Features
May 16

General availability: Seamlessly upgrade your Application Gateway V2 WAF configuration to a policy

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall (WAF) on Application Gateway now supports a fully automated experience when upgrading your WAF from configuration to policy.

  • Application Gateway
  • Web Application Firewall
  • Security
  • Features
May 15

Generally available: Policy analytics for Azure Firewall

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure Firewall
  • Services
  • Security
  • Features
May 8

General availability: Inbound ICMPv4 pings are now supported on Azure Load Balancer

NOW AVAILABLE

Inbound ICMPv4 pings are now supported on Azure Load Balancer.

  • Load Balancer
  • Features

April 2023

Apr 24

Generally available: Cross-region service endpoints for Azure Storage

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now connect Storage Accounts to Virtual Networks in all regions using global service endpoints (cross-region service endpoints).

  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Virtual Network
  • Features
Apr 17

General Availability: Azure CNI Overlay

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure CNI Overlay utilizes an overlay network to reduce IP utilization while providing better performance and scale.  

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Virtual Network
  • Features
Apr 4

General availability: IP Protection SKU for Azure DDoS Protection

NOW AVAILABLE

IP Protection provides cost-effective, enterprise-grade DDoS protection designed to meet the needs of SMB.

  • Azure DDoS Protection
  • Services
  • Security

March 2023

Mar 22

General availability: Reserved namespaces for subdomains

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Traffic Manager now enables reserving domain labels across all traffic manager profiles.

  • Traffic Manager
  • Services
  • Features
Mar 15

Generally available: Azure Firewall Basic

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Firewall Basic provides cost-effective, enterprise-grade network security for small and medium businesses (SMBs).

  • Azure Firewall
  • Services
  • Security
  • Features
Mar 1

General availability: New enhanced connection troubleshoot

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Network Watcher announces enhanced connection troubleshoot helping resolve network connectivity issue comprehensively along with actionable insights

  • Azure Monitor
  • Network Watcher
  • Features

February 2023

Feb 27

General availability: Scale improvements and metrics enhancements on Azure’s regional WAF

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall (WAF) running on Application Gateway now supports improved scale limits, including HTTP listener count, as well as additional metrics dimensions.

  • Web Application Firewall
  • Application Gateway
  • Security
  • Features

December 2022

Dec 15

General availability: Feature enhancements to Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF)

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Web Application Firewall
  • Application Gateway
  • Azure Front Door
  • Security
  • Features

November 2022

Nov 30

General availability: 12 months free services for new Azure PAYG customers

NOW AVAILABLE

With an Azure free account, you can explore with free amounts of 55+ always free services.

  • Media Services
  • Azure Container Registry
  • Service Bus
  • Load Balancer
  • Virtual Machines
  • Key Vault
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Azure Files
  • Azure AI services
  • Azure AI Vision
  • Services
  • Security
Nov 15

General availability: TLS 1.3 with Application Gateway

NOW AVAILABLE

Start using the new policies with TLS 1.3 for your Azure Application Gateway to improve security and performance.

  • Application Gateway
  • Services
  • Security
  • Features

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