High-scale mesh using connected group in Azure Virtual Network Manager is now in general availability. In available regions, customers may connect up to 3,000 virtual networks in a single mesh connectivity configuration by default and higher scale IP conn

Announcing public preview support for HTTP/3 over QUIC on Azure Application Gateway. HTTP/3 is the next evolution of HTTP and uses QUIC to improve connection setup time, reduce latency, and provide better resiliency for modern web applications and APIs. W

Azure Virtual Network Manager IP address management is now generally available in additional regions: US Gov Virginia, US Gov Texas and US Gov Arizona, and China North 3 and China East 3. In complex network environments, managing IP addresses effectively

Azure Front Door’s Web Application Firewall (WAF) now supports profile and route level WAF policy associations in public preview. This gives you more flexibility to apply broad baseline protection across an Azure Front Door profile while using targeted po

Azure Firewall’s auto-learn SNAT routes is now generally available, automatically learning registered and private destination prefixes periodically and applying them as No-SNAT ranges to preserve original source IPs and simplify SNAT management.Learn more

Announcing the public preview of Azure Multicloud Interconnect, a managed service that provides private connectivity between Azure and supported cloud providers, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) available as the first supported provider in preview. As organ

Azure Bastion shareable link expiration is now generally available. When creating a shareable link, administrators can specify the date and time when the link should expire. After the configured expiration time, the link can no longer be used to connect t

Azure Bastion support for IPv4 and IPv6 dual-stack configurations is now available in public preview. Customers can configure a newly created Bastion deployment with both IPv4 and IPv6 public IP addresses. IPv6 is supported for connections between the use

Azure Bastion integration with Azure Kubernetes Service is now generally available. Customers can establish a secure tunnel from their local machine through Azure Bastion to an AKS cluster API server. The integration enables customers to use standard Kube

Announcing the General Availability of custom block response code and body for WAF integrated with Application Gateway Azure WAF integrated with Application Gateway now supports customizable response status codes and bodies for blocked requests, enabling

Summarized advertised gateway prefixes for route advertisement is now generally available. You can specify aggregated (summarized) prefixes for an Azure gateway to advertise to your on-premises networks, rather than having every individual virtual network

Azure Firewall now supports IPv6 in public preview, enabling customers to configure Azure Firewall and Firewall Policy in dual-stack mode for both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic. This preview allows native IPv6 network-rule filtering and DNS Proxy support, helping

Batch rule updates are now generally available for Azure Front Door Standard and Premium. This capability enables customers to add, update, delete, or reorder multiple rules in a rule set as a coordinated operation, ensuring that all changes are applied t

Mutual TLS, also known as client certificate authentication, enables Azure Front Door to authenticate clients using X.509 certificates before requests reach an application. It helps protect sensitive applications and APIs across business-to-business, Inte

Azure Firewall Premium now delivers up to 22 Gbps throughput with TLS inspection and IDPS in Deny mode, a 120% increase from 10 Gbps, and up to 600 Mbps per TCP connection with IDPS enabled in either Alert or Deny mode (doubled from 300 Mbps). Learn more.

Azure ExpressRoute resiliency guard is now available in public preview for ExpressRoute virtual network gateways. The new resiliency model property lets you specify whether a gateway is intended for a single-homed or multi-homed configuration, helping ali

Azure Firewall explicit proxy is now generally available. Explicit proxy enables customers to configure applications and browsers to send HTTP and HTTPS traffic directly to Azure Firewall using proxy settings, providing an alternative to route-based traff

Perimeter link (cross-perimeter connectivity) is a network security perimeter capability that allows trusted resources in two different network security perimeters to securely communicate with each other using Managed Identity (MSI), without requiring add

Azure Private Link over IPv6 enables you to privately access Azure PaaS services, such as Azure Storage and Azure SQL Database, over IPv6-based connectivity. You can now use IPv6 private endpoints to connect from IPv6 clients in an Azure virtual network o

Azure DNS now offers a seamless way to integrate with Azure Traffic Manager for DNS-based traffic routing. Customers can now directly associate Azure DNS record set with Traffic Manager profiles without creating CNAME record for trafficmanager.net domain.