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.

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.

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

Inbound ICMPv4 pings are now supported on Azure Load Balancer.

Basic Load Balancer will be retired.

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

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.

You can now specify target backend pool in inbound NAT rule for less management overhead when configuring port forwarding.

Upgrade to Standard SKU Load Balancer easily through a simple PowerShell script and take advantage of enhanced capabilities.

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

Azure Load Balancer support for adding and removing resources from a backend pool via IP address is now generally available. This enables IP addresses to be reserved as part of…

Azure Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) is a mature REST API which offers metadata information regarding Networking, Storage, SKU and etc. We are now adding Load Balancer related information to the…

Azure public IPs now support the ability to be upgraded from Basic to Standard SKU, enabling customers to retain the same IP address for services that require Standard IP frontends.

Standard Load Balancers and Standard Public IP addresses support cross resource group moves enabling easy management of resources at the resource group level.

Azure Load Balancer now supports load balancing across regions based on health and latency.

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

Azure Load Balancer customers now have instant access to a preconfigured solution for health monitoring and configuration analysis enabling rapid fault localization and informed design decisions.

Azure Load Balancer now supports adding and removing resources from a backend pool via an IPv4 or IPv6 addresses and virtual network ID. This will enable you to easily manage…

Azure Load Balancer TCP resets on idle timeout is now generally available in all Azure regions.

Global VNet Peering now supports Standard Load Balancer in all Azure regions, including Azure China and Azure Government regions.

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…

Now in preview, Azure Load Balancer supports sending of bidirectional TCP resets on idle timeout for load balancing rules, inbound NAT rules, and outbound rules.

Azure Standard Load Balancer is now generally available in all regions.

HA Ports, a premium offering of the Azure Standard Load Balancer, is now generally available. This will enable customers to configure a single load balancing rule to process traffic from…

Azure Load Balancer introduces a HA Ports, a capability that enables you to load balance internal virtual network traffic on all ports for all supported protocols.

Load Balancer Standard is in preview. You can use it to create load-balanced deployments with greater scale, resiliency, and ease of use for virtual machine instances inside a virtual network.

Multiple IP addresses per network interface is generally available.

Multiple IP addresses per NIC is in public preview.

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

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

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.

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

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