Explicit Proxy in Azure Firewall Goes GA: An Alternative to Route-Based Inspection
Azure Firewall’s explicit proxy mode reached general availability this month. For anyone who has fought with user-defined routes to steer outbound traffic through a firewall, this is a meaningful change. Instead of relying on transparent, route-based interception, you can now point applications and browsers directly at the firewall as a proxy. Explicit proxy versus the […]
Azure Private Link now works over IPv6
Azure Private Link has started supporting IPv6, in public preview. The update lets you reach Azure PaaS services like Azure Storage and Azure SQL Database over IPv6-based connectivity, using IPv6 private endpoints from clients inside an Azure virtual network. For anyone running an IPv6 or dual-stack estate, this closes a long standing gap in the […]
Azure Virtual Network routing appliance hits general availability
Azure has made its Virtual Network routing appliance generally available for production workloads. The move gives teams a managed alternative to the usual stack of VM-based network virtual appliances (NVAs) that have anchored hub-and-spoke designs for years. It also marks August 4, 2026 as the date the service stopped being a preview experiment and became […]
Azure Firewall Now Supports HTTP Header Insertion at GA
Azure Firewall now supports HTTP header insertion in application rules, and this is one of those features that sounds small but opens up a lot of useful scenarios for network security teams. The feature went GA on July 27, 2026, and it lets you add or overwrite HTTP request headers directly from the firewall without […]
Route-Maps for Azure Route Server Now in Public Preview
Microsoft has launched the public preview of Route-Maps for Azure Route Server, giving network engineers fine-grained control over BGP routing in hybrid cloud environments. Route maps let you manipulate how routes are advertised and received across VPN and ExpressRoute connections, moving beyond the static route tables that made complex topologies painful to manage. What route […]