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Azure – You can now use your own certificate for domain validation with Azure Front Door

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Azure Front Door Standard and Premium SKUs now allows you to use your own certificate when validating the custom domain. Azure Front Door will automatically approve the custom domain if the Certificate Name (CN) or Subject Alternative Name (SAN) of the certificate matches the custom domain. It will improve and simplify the domain validation process, […]

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Azure – You can now enable explicit proxy on your Azure Firewall (preview)

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By default, Azure Firewall operates in a transparent proxy mode, where traffic is routed through the firewall using a user-defined route (UDR) configuration. Well, you can now enable explicit proxy mode for outbound traffic. With this mode enabled, you have the option to configure a proxy setting (either manually or using PAC file) on the

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Azure – You can now enable auto-learn SNAT for Azure Firewall (preview)

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Azure Firewall can now learn address ranges and automatically configure them to be excluded from Source Network Address Translation (SNAT) for outbound connections (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/load-balancer-outbound-connections/). This helps reducing time and complexity when manually defining SNAT ranges. When auto-learn SNAT functionality, the auto-learn will configure the firewall every 30 minutes for both registered and private ranges.

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Azure – You can now use Azure Update Manager to update SQL Server on Azure VM (preview)

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Ensuring your virtual machine and workloads running on it is an important task to maintain your security posture. You probably know that you can manage updates management on Azure using Azure Update Manager (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/update-center/overview?tabs=azure-vms). Well, Azure Update Manager can now be used to also update your SQL instance running on a virtual machine. To do

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Azure – You can now implement rate-limit rules for your web application firewall (preview)

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You can now implement custom rules supporting rate-limit on your regional Web Application Gateway Firewall. The rate-limit rules detect and block abnormal high levels of traffic, helping you to protect against denial of service attack. To implement such rule, connect to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com/) to create a new WAF (web application firewall) policy or

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Azure – You can now customize additional response codes for your application gateway (preview)

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Application Gateway allows you to create customized error pages instead of displaying default ones. Until now, it was allowing to customize only the HTTP 403 (Forbidden) and HTTP 502 (Bad Gateway) error codes. Well, good news as now you can also customize 6 additional error codes: 400 – Bad Request 405 – Method Not Allowed

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Azure – New cost management workbook available in preview

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Managing cost when running cloud services is an important thing and maybe sometime difficult, especially ensuring you are using all cost optimization benefits such as Azure Hybrid benefits. To help you checking you are properly optimizing your workloads cost, a new workbook is now available in preview to give you an overview of your cost.

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Azure – New service retirement workbook

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When using cloud services, it is sometime difficult to keep up with service evolutions. While discovering new service can be relatively easy, it becomes more difficult to keep up with service retirement. Well, good news as Azure Advisor now provides a service retirement workbook. To use it, connect to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com/) to search/access

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Azure – Geo redundancy is now available in preview for large file shares (preview)

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As you know, you can implement geo redundancy for Azure Storage account and Azure File Shares. But there was some limitations such as the size of the file share. Well, good news, as you can now use this redundancy for large file shares and even better it is supported for production, even if this is

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Azure – You can now use custom error page in App Service (preview)

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App Service now supports to define custom error page for 403, 502 and 503 error codes. This capability is available for both Linux and Windows workloads when using a Premium SKU. NOTE this is not available for ASE v2 SKU Before setting up your custom error page, you need to create the new HTML page

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