Networking
18 posts.
Azure Front Door Premium Now Supports Mutual TLS, Generally Available
If you expose sensitive APIs or partner-facing apps through Azure Front Door, you no longer need to push client certificate checks down to your origin. Mutual TLS (mTLS) is now…
Azure Front Door Edge Actions Are GA: Run JavaScript at the Edge
What if you could make routing and content decisions in the request path itself, without standing up a separate compute tier behind your CDN? Azure Front Door edge actions are now…
WAF Insights for Application Gateway Is Now Generally Available
Digging through raw WAF logs to work out why a request was blocked is slow, and it gets worse as traffic grows. If you run Azure Application Gateway with Web Application Firewall,…
PostgreSQL Flexible Server: Move from VNet Integration to Private Endpoints
Network design for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server just got less permanent. If your server was deployed with VNet integration, you are no longer locked into that…
VNet Flow Logs Filtering Is Now GA: Log Only the Traffic That Matters
Flow logs are only useful when you can find the signal in them. If you run busy Azure virtual networks, you know how fast unfiltered logs pile up in storage and drown the traffic…
Service Tags Now Match in Azure Front Door Premium WAF Custom Rules
Keeping IP allow and deny lists current in your WAF rules is tedious and easy to get wrong. A new match condition in Azure Front Door Premium WAF removes much of that chore. The…
Azure DNS Now Load Balances Directly Through Traffic Manager Linked Records
If you run DNS-based load balancing on Azure, you know the pattern: a CNAME in your zone pointing at a trafficmanager.net name. That extra hop is now optional. Azure DNS now…
Standard Service Endpoint Is Now GA: Private Link Scale for IaaS-to-PaaS Traffic
Connecting IaaS workloads to PaaS services privately has always meant trade-offs between manageability and scale. A new member of the Azure Private Link family aims to remove them,…
AKS Now Manages a StandardV2 NAT Gateway for You
Outbound connectivity from AKS just got less of a manual chore. Managed StandardV2 NAT Gateway for AKS is now generally available, so AKS can provision and manage the NAT Gateway…
No More IP Headaches: Azure VNM IP Address Management Hits Sovereign Clouds
Managing a complex network shouldn't feel like a high-stakes puzzle where one overlapping CIDR block can bring your entire architecture to a standstill. For organizations operating…
Turbocharge Your AKS: eBPF Host Routing Hits General Availability
Networking bottlenecks can be the silent killer of high-performance Kubernetes clusters. As cloud-native workloads scale, every millisecond spent in the packet-processing path…
Declutter Your Routes: Azure Gateway Prefix Summarization Hits General Availability
Stop drowning in a sea of routing prefixes. As your Azure environment scales, your on-premises routers shouldn't have to bear the burden of tracking every single individual virtual…
Master Your Edge: Batch Rule Updates Now GA for Azure Front Door
Managing complex traffic rules shouldn't feel like a high-stakes game of Jenga. In the high-demand world of edge security and content delivery, the ability to deploy configurations…
Turbocharge Your Cloud: Azure's New Hardware-Accelerated Routing is Now GA
The network bottleneck is officially a thing of the past. For years, cloud architects have had to balance complex routing requirements with the performance limitations of standard…
Bridging the Protocol Gap: Azure NAT Gateway Now Supports NAT64
As organizations accelerate their transition to IPv6-first architectures, a critical challenge remains: how to maintain communication with an internet that is still predominantly…
Unlock Modern Scale: Azure VPN Gateway Adds IPv6 Dual-Stack Support
The transition to IPv6 is no longer a distant roadmap item—it is a critical necessity for modern, scalable cloud architectures. As IPv4 addresses become increasingly scarce and…
Azure NAT Gateway: Ping Power-Up for Easier Troubleshooting
Tired of guesswork when diagnosing outbound network issues from your Azure workloads? A significant enhancement to Azure's StandardV2 NAT Gateway has just landed, promising to…
Secure Your Mesh: App Gateway for Containers and Istio Integration is Now GA
Managing the boundary where external traffic meets your internal service mesh is notoriously complex. For those utilizing Istio, the challenge has always been maintaining a…