Virtual Network NAT health checks generally available via Resource Health
Support for Resource Health checks with VNet Network Address Translation (NAT) helps organisations monitor the health of their NAT gateways as well as diagnose or troubleshoot outbound connectivity.
With Azure Resource Health, you can:
- View a personalized dashboard of the health of your NAT gateway
- Set up customizable resource health alerts to notify you in near real-time of when the health status of your NAT gateway changes
- See the current and past health history of your NAT gateway to help you mitigate issues
- Access technical support when you need help with Azure services, such as diagnosing and solving issues.
For more information please refer to the Microsoft Docs page at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/nat-gateway/resource-health
Improvements to Microsoft Azure Web Application Firewall is generally available.
Microsoft has announced a series of enhancements to the regional WAF service, which follows on from the announcements in March around improvements to the global WAF service.
These enhancements allow organisations to take advantage of a range of new functionality, including:
- Reduced false positives with Core Rule Set 3.2 integrated with Azure Application Gateway. The older CRS 2.2.9 ruleset is being phased out in favour of the newer rulesets.
- Improved performance and scale with the next generation of WAF engine, released with CRS 3.2
- Increased size limits on regional WAF for body inspection up to 2MB and file upload up to 4GB
- Advanced customization with per rule exclusion and attribute by names support on regional WAF
- Native consistent experience with WAF policy – new deployments of Application Gateway v2 WAF SKU now natively utilizes WAF policies instead of configuration
- Advanced analytics capabilities with new Azure Monitor metrics on regional WAF
For more information please refer to the original blog post, which can be found here https://aka.ms/AzureWAF/updatesmay22
The ability to enable user authorisation for creating partner topics is in Public Preview
From roughly June of this year, Microsoft’s Event Grid service will start requiring authorisations to create partner topics or partner destinations. To enable this feature prior to the above date you will need to opt-in.
Please note this feature does not apply to custom topics, domains, or system topics.
For more information on this upcoming change, please refer to this post https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-grid/subscribe-to-partner-events#authorize-partner-to-create-a-partner-topic
The ability to deploy Static Web App environments to preview environments in Azure DevOps is in Public Preview.
With Static Web Apps, you can now configure Azure pipelines to deploy your application to preview environments. The Azure DevOps task for Azure Static Web Apps intelligently detects and builds your app’s frontend and API and deploys the entire application to Azure.
For more information please refer to the following link https://aka.ms/devopspreview.
