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May 2022

May 26

General availability: Enhanced IPv6 functionality for MultiValue profiles in Azure Traffic Manager

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Traffic Manager now enables you to specify minimum children property separately for IPv4 and IPv6 endpoints for MultiValue profiles.

  • Traffic Manager
  • Features
May 3

Generally available: Enhancements to Azure Web Application Firewall

NOW AVAILABLE

Latest updates and new enhancements available for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF).

  • Web Application Firewall
  • Security
  • Services
  • Features

April 2022

Apr 25

Generally available: Controls to block domain fronting behavior on customer resources

NOW AVAILABLE

Block domain fronting behavior on Azure Front Door, Azure Front Door (classic), and Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) resources.

  • Azure Front Door (classic)
  • Azure Front Door
  • Content Delivery Network
  • Security
  • Services
  • Features
Apr 11

Generally available: Service tags support for user-defined routing

NOW AVAILABLE

Simplify route creation and management by using service tags to represent multiple IP ranges in a single user-defined route.

  • Virtual Network
  • Features

March 2022

Mar 31

General availability: Bring your own IP ranges to Azure

NOW AVAILABLE

Bring your own public IP ranges to Azure to retain existing reputation or to prevent your customers from needing to modify dependencies (e.g. firewalls or other hardcoding) on their network.

  • Load Balancer
  • Virtual Network
  • Features
Mar 29

Generally available: The new Azure Front Door – a modern cloud CDN service

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Front Door is a modern cloud CDN that enables you to accelerate the delivery of applications, APIs, and content on Azure or anywhere at scale.

  • Azure Front Door (classic)
  • Security
  • Services
  • Features
Mar 28

General availability: Azure Bastion native client support

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Bastion native client support brings you the ability to connect to target VMs from the command line and log in using your Azure Active Directory credentials.

  • Azure Bastion
  • Security
  • Features
Mar 21

General availability: Inbound NAT rule now supports port management for backend pools

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now specify target backend pool in inbound NAT rule for less management overhead when configuring port forwarding.

  • Load Balancer
  • Features

February 2022

Feb 22

General availability: Application Gateway mutual authentication

NOW AVAILABLE

Enable frontend mutual authentication and listener specific SSL policies on Application Gateway, now generally available.

  • Application Gateway
  • Security
  • Features

January 2022

Jan 11

General availability: Multiple custom BGP APIPA addresses for active VPN gateways

NOW AVAILABLE

Get more flexibility for your on-premises BGP connections to Azure and create BGP-enabled VPN connections between Azure and other cloud providers.

  • VPN Gateway
  • Security
  • Features
Jan 10

Generally available: Load Balancer SKU upgrade through PowerShell script

NOW AVAILABLE

Upgrade to Standard SKU Load Balancer easily through a simple PowerShell script and take advantage of enhanced capabilities.

  • Load Balancer
  • Features
Jan 6

Azure Traffic Manager: Additional IP addresses for endpoint monitoring service.

NOW AVAILABLE

Update your network access control rules if you see Traffic Manager health probes with new IP addresses.

  • Traffic Manager
  • Azure Firewall
  • Security
  • Services

November 2021

Nov 29

General availability: VPN Gateway NAT

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure VPN Gateway NAT (Network Address Translation) can be used to connect on-premises networks or branch offices to an Azure virtual network with overlapping IP addresses.

  • VPN Gateway
  • Security
  • Features
Nov 29

General availability: Wildcard listener on Application Gateways

NOW AVAILABLE

Application Gateway now supports wildcard characters for multi-site listeners.

  • Application Gateway
  • Security
  • Features
Nov 19

General availability: Increased connection limit for VPN Gateways

NOW AVAILABLE

VPN Gateways can now support up to 100 Site-to-Site/VNet-to-VNet connections for some VPN Gateway SKUs.

  • VPN Gateway
  • Security
  • Features
Nov 8

General availability: ExpressRoute now supports Azure Virtual Desktop Shortpath RDP over Private Peering

NOW AVAILABLE

ExpressRoute enables direct connectivity between on-premises and Microsoft global network. You can connect to virtual machines and private endpoints defined in an Azure virtual network with private peering.

  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • Azure Virtual Desktop
  • Features
Nov 2

General availability: Bastion Standard SKU

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Bastion Standard SKU offers key capabilities for enterprises, unblocking critical customer scenarios.

  • Azure Bastion
  • Security
  • Services
  • Features
Nov 2

General availability: New troubleshooting experiences in Network Insights for VPN Gateway & Azure Firewall

NOW AVAILABLE

Rich insights for additional networking resources in Azure Monitor.

  • Azure Monitor
  • VPN Gateway
  • Azure Firewall
  • Security
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features

October 2021

Oct 26

Extended regional availability for Private Link NSG Support

NOW AVAILABLE

Private Link NSG public preview support has extended regional availability to ​​​​​​​Asiaeast, Australiaeast, Japaneast, Canadacentral, Europenorth, Koreacentral, Brazilsouth, Uksouth, US South, US North, France Central.

  • Azure Private Link
  • Security
  • Services
  • Features
Oct 26

Extended regional availability for Private Link UDR Support

NOW AVAILABLE

Private Link Network Security Group public preview support has extended regional availability to ​​​​​​​Asiaeast, Australiaeast, Japaneast, Canadacentral, Europenorth, Koreacentral, Brazilsouth, Uksouth, US South, US North, France Central

  • Azure Private Link
  • Security
  • Services
  • Features

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