General availability: Azure ExpressRoute: New ExpressRoute Direct locations available

Networking, Load Balancer

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.

08/07/2020

Networking, Application Gateway

Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall (WAF) on Application Gateway now supports a fully automated experience when upgrading your WAF from configuration to policy.

16/05/2023

Networking, Traffic Manager

Azure Traffic Manager now enables you to specify minimum children property separately for IPv4 and IPv6 endpoints for MultiValue profiles.

26/05/2022

Networking, Application Gateway

Try geomatch custom rules to block or allow traffic based on geo-location, now generally available for Azure Web Application Firewall on Application Gateway.

30/07/2021

Networking, Virtual Network

Public IP Prefix, a reserved range of static IP addresses, is generally available in all Azure public regions, China cloud regions, and Government cloud regions.

13/05/2019

Networking, Azure DNS

Seamlessly perform conditional forwarding from on-prem to Azure Private DNS Zones and from Azure Virtual Networks to any target DNS server.

16/05/2022

Networking, Azure Bastion

Fully managed service for seamless and secure RDP/SSH access to your virtual machines without public IP on the VM.

18/06/2019

Networking, Load Balancer

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

29/01/2016

Networking, ExpressRoute

With ExpressRoute Direct, you can enable rate-limiting for your circuit to match the traffic volume with the configured bandwidth rate.

15/11/2023

Networking, Network Watcher

Azure Network Watcher Connection Monitor announces support for virtual machine scale sets which enables faster performance monitoring and network troubleshooting through connectivity checks.

08/06/2022

Networking, Network Watcher

Transition to the new Connection Monitor in Azure Network Watcher.

23/02/2021

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