Azure Firewall feature updates for July 2019

Networking, Load Balancer

Azure Load Balancer support for cross-region load balancing is now generally available. You can now load balance across Azure regions enabling a globally redundant architecture via Azure Load Balancer.

10/07/2023

Networking, Application Gateway

On 15 March 2027, the Application Gateway WAF v2 Configuration will be retired. To continue using this service, switch to the Application Gateway WAF v2 Policy before the retirement date.

15/03/2024

Networking, Application Gateway

Azure Application Gateway now supports rewriting HTTP Request and Response Headers.

16/04/2019

Networking, Azure Bastion

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

04/04/2022

Networking, ExpressRoute

IPv6 support for ExpressRoute Private Peering is now generally available with ExpressRoute circuits and Azure environments globally.

25/10/2021

Networking, Virtual Network

Deployment of an Azure Data Explorer into a virtual network is now generally available. Use this feature to isolate the network traffic and limit the attack surface for Azure Data…

15/03/2020

Networking, Load Balancer

Outbound Rules for Standard Load Balancer is now generally available. This new ability allows you to declare which public IP or public IP prefix should be used for outbound connectivity…

24/09/2018

Networking, Load Balancer

The zone related behavior in Standard Public IP address and Standard Load Balancer is being changed.

31/08/2020

Networking, VPN Gateway

To improve your Azure VPN experience, we're going to introduce a new generation of VPN gateways with better performance, a better SLA, and at the same price as our older…

30/06/2017

Networking, ExpressRoute

ExpressRoute customers can now seamlessly migrate.

15/11/2023

Networking, Virtual Network

Simplify route creation and management by using Service Tags to represent multiple IP ranges in a single route. Utilize over 60 tags representing ranges for Microsoft and Azure service.

26/03/2021

Networking, Application Gateway

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.

05/07/2023