Azure Firewall updates—September 2019

Networking, ExpressRoute

ExpressRoute Direct gives you the ability to connect directly into Microsoft’s global network at peering locations strategically distributed around the world.

30/08/2021

Networking, Application Gateway

Azure Application Gateway is an application delivery controller-as-a-service offering that provides layer 7 load balancing, security, and web application firewall functionality. Autoscaling functionality is available in preview as part of…

24/09/2018

Networking, Private Link

Azure Storage now supports copying of data between storage accounts using private endpoints. This includes support for the Copy Blob API and utilities such as AzCopy.

23/01/2021

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, Private Link

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

17/08/2022

Networking, Azure Bastion

You can now deploy Azure Bastion in a peered Virtual Network (VNet), enabling RDP/SSH connectivity to virtual machines deployed in a peered Virtual network (VNet)

14/05/2021

Networking, Application Gateway

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

29/11/2021

Networking, ExpressRoute

We are now announcing the addition of the Azure Cosmos DB community on ExpressRoute, which will allow for regional advertisements of Azure Cosmos DB.

01/07/2019

Networking, Virtual WAN

Azure is partnering with third-party Network Virtual Appliance (NVA) partners to allow customers to choose to deploy an NVA directly into the Virtual WAN hub as an option for SD-WAN…

22/09/2020

Networking, Network Watcher

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

31/03/2017

Networking, Load Balancer

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

01/06/2023

Networking, Private Link

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.

13/10/2022