General availability: Azure Network Watcher Connection Monitor in all public regions

Networking, Azure Firewall

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

29/09/2022

Networking, ExpressRoute

ExpressRoute Global Reach allows you to link ExpressRoute circuits in different locations together to make a private network between your on-premises networks.

07/08/2021

Networking, VPN Gateway

Azure VPN Client for macOS enables customers to utilize features of Azure AD natively, such as multi-factor authentication, Conditional Access, and user-based policies for their Mac clients.

14/05/2021

Networking, Azure Firewall

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

02/08/2022

Networking, ExpressRoute

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

29/08/2022

Networking, Application Gateway

Azure Networking features will be available only in the Azure portal from October 4th, 2017. Networking related feature support from the classic Portal will be deprecated starting October 4th.

02/10/2017

Networking, VPN Gateway

We’ve announced a new Azure Virtual Private Network (VPN) Gateway that allows you to connect your virtual network via ExpressRoute and site-to-site VPN.

04/05/2015

Networking, Load Balancer

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.

31/03/2022

Networking, Azure Bastion

Azure Bastion now supports the Kerberos authentication protocol in public preview.

04/04/2022

Networking, Network Watcher

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.

08/06/2022

Networking, ExpressRoute

ExpressRoute Direct customers can now generate an authorization key for your ExpressRoute Direct resource and use it to make an ExpressRoute Circuit in a different subscription.

15/11/2023

Networking, Azure Bastion

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

09/11/2021