Networking

Web Application Firewall is generally available as part of the WAF tier on Application Gateway. This is available in all Azure public regions.

Multiple IP addresses per network interface is generally available.

Use Azure Network Watcher, now in public preview, to monitor, diagnose, and gain insights into network performance and health.

Multiple IP addresses per NIC is in public preview.

UltraPerformance Gateway connects a virtual network to an Azure ExpressRoute circuit and provides five times the network throughput of HighPerformance Gateway.

Application Gateway announces the public preview of web application firewall (WAF) functionality as part of new WAF tier. This is available in all Azure regions.

Extend your application's reach with IPv6 for Azure virtual machines.

Azure DNS is generally available. The service is offered with a 99.99% availability SLA and is covered by Azure Support. General availability pricing will take effect from November 1, 2016.

The Azure ExpressRoute footprint is expanding to Paris, Newport/Wales, and Quebec City.

Azure ExpressRoute Premium tier has three distinct advantages over the non-Premium version of the service: global connectivity, a larger number of virtual networks, and a larger number of routes (private…

With Azure DevTest Labs, you can use your existing virtual network in a lab.

Azure DNS is fully supported in the Azure portal.

Use Audit, Alert event, and Health probe logs to manage and troubleshoot Azure Load Balancer.

Support is available for Azure Compute, Network, and Storage providers under Azure Resource Manager in Australia East, Australia Southeast, and Brazil South.

Announcing support for Azure Compute, Network, and Storage Providers under Azure Resource Manager in Australia East, Australia Southeast, and Brazil South.

Azure Resource Manager support for ExpressRoute is available in all regions.

Azure ExpressRoute service connections have two new data plans. You can choose between unlimited or metered plans based on your usage.

ARM support for ExpressRoute is available in the Brazil South region.

Announcing updates to Office 365, Azure Government Cloud, Resource Manager templates, and simplified billing.

Azure Virtual Machines, virtual networks, load balancer network interfaces, public IP addresses, network security groups, VPN gateways and Application Gateways are generally available and supported through Azure Resource Manager.

Azure Application Gateway helps you build highly scalable and available applications by providing application-level (HTTP/HTTPS) load balancing and delivery control.

New networking features were announced at Ignite 2015, and they are available in few regions.

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.

Azure Domain Name System (DNS) allows you to host your domains with your Azure apps. By hosting your domains in Azure, you can manage your DNS records by using your…

For Azure ExpressRoute customers who require a large number of Border Gateway Protocol routes, global connectivity, or more Azure virtual network links per circuit, we’ve introduced the ExpressRoute Premium add-on…

Manage your Azure network resources by using new REST-based Resource Provider APIs.

Azure ExpressRoute is available in the Brazil South region.

We’ve changed the amount of egress data included in the 10 Gbps ExpressRoute Exchange Provider and reduced the price of 10 Gbps connections.

Traffic Manager Nested Profiles enable you to create more flexible and powerful load balancing and failover schemes to support the needs of larger, more complex deployments.

The new release adds support for Role-based access control, SQL Database auditing support in Azure Resource Manager mode and more

Azure Traffic Manager’s round robin load-balancing method now supports weights.

This PowerShell release includes updates for Web Sites, Traffic Manager, and individual cmdlets.

Manage traffic for endpoints that live inside or outside of Azure.

Manage and load balance Azure Web Sites with Azure Traffic Manager. Available for all Standard websites.

Use Azure Traffic Manager's load-balancing capability to create applications that set the bar for responsiveness and availability.