Networking

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

Increase your security posture and reduce false positives with Default Rule Set 2.1, now in preview on Azure's regional Web Application Firewall (WAF) with Application Gateway.

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

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…

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.

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

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

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

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.

Inbound ICMPv4 pings are now supported on Azure Load Balancer.

We are excited to announce that the AlwaysServe feature for Azure Traffic Manager is now available in Public Preview. This feature allows customers to disable endpoint health checks from an…

Application Gateway V1 will be retired on 28 April 2026

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

Application Gateway v2 is introducing support for private IP only frontend configurations, enhanced control over NSG rules, and support for forced tunneling/route table rules to virtual appliances.

ExpressRoute Public Peering will be retired on March 31, 2024.

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

You can now manage the TLS certificates associated with Listeners through Azure portal.

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

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.

Accelerated Connections is a new product that enhances Accelerated Networking enabled vNICs, enabling customers to increase connections per second and improve performance in multiple active connection scenarios.

Interact with Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM) event logs for network group membership changes.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

You can use this feature to migrate Azure Front Door (classic) to Azure Front Door Standard and Premium with zero downtime.

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…

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.

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.

ExpressRoute Traffic Collector enables sampling of network flows sent over ExpressRoute Direct circuits.

Seamlessly perform conditional forwarding from on-prem to Azure Private DNS Zones and from Azure Virtual Networks to any target DNS server.

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

Basic Load Balancer will be retired.

You can now manage firewall rules over time by providing insights and analysis of traffic flowing through Azure Firewall.

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…

You can use this feature to resize or update the IP address of your peered virtual networks without removing the peering.

IPv6 support for Global Reach expands the possibilities for customers building dual-stack, hybrid networks with Azure.

Network security groups (NSGs) support for private endpoints is now generally available.

User-defined routes (UDRs) support for private endpoints is now generally available.

Azure Firewall Premium Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) certification from ICSA Labs is now available.

Peer Route Server with network virtual appliances (NVAs) deployed behind an Azure Internal Load Balancer (ILB).

Use TLS 1.3 in Azure Application Gateway to improve security and performance.

Gateway Load Balancer enables you to deploy, scale, and enhance the availability of third party network virtual appliances (NVAs) in Azure with ease.

You can now redeem an ExpressRoute Direct authorization to create an ExpressRoute Circuit in a different subscription.

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.

Learn how private link support for Application Gateway drives more secured network access.

Azure Network Watcher Connection Monitor announces support for virtual machine scale sets which enables faster performance monitoring and network troubleshooting through connectivity checks.

Azure Network Watcher packet capture announces support for virtual machines scale sets. This is as an out of the box, on-demand capability, enabling faster diagnostics and troubleshooting of networking issues.

IPv6 support for Global Reach expands the possibilities for customers building dual-stack, hybrid networks with Azure.