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2026 (1)

March (1)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Draft & Deploy on Azure Firewall

Azure Updates

2026-03-03

Azure Firewall Policy adds a Draft & Deploy workflow that separates editing from deployment to reduce deployment time and operational disruption when updating policies.

2025 (7)

November (2)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: DNS flow trace logs for Azure Firewall

Azure Updates

2025-11-11

Azure Firewall now generally available: DNS flow trace logs provide deep, end-to-end visibility into DNS traffic and name resolution paths, delivering richer telemetry to help troubleshoot, validate, and secure DNS.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Troubleshoot Azure Firewall using packet capture

Azure Updates

2025-11-10

Azure has announced a Public Preview feature to troubleshoot Azure Firewall using packet capture. The capability captures specific flows with filtering by protocol, flags and other filters, and captures can be started from the Azure portal or via PowerShell.

October (4)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Prescaling in Azure Firewall

Azure Updates

2025-10-16

Azure Firewall now offers prescaling (general availability), letting administrators provision and reserve capacity units in advance to handle expected traffic loads—such as seasonal peaks or planned business events—helping ensure consistent throughput and faster handling of traffic spikes.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Observed capacity metric in Azure Firewall

Azure Updates

2025-10-16

Azure Firewall now includes the observed capacity metric (Generally Available). The metric reports the number of capacity units actively utilized over time to help administrators understand how their firewalls are scaling in practice.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Firewall updates - Customer provided public IP address support in secured hubs

Azure Updates

2025-10-09

Azure Firewall in Virtual WAN secured hubs is now generally available with support for customer-provided public IP addresses, allowing organizations to bring their own public IPs when deploying Azure Firewall in a secured Virtual WAN hub.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Firewall Updates - IP Group limit increased to 600 per Firewall Policy

Azure Updates

2025-10-07

Azure Firewall Policy now generally available supports up to 600 IP Groups per policy (previously 200), allowing administrators to simplify and better organize firewall rules by using more IP Groups instead of long IP lists.

September (1)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Introducing the new Network Security Hub experience

Azure Updates

2025-09-17

Azure has made the expanded and rebranded Azure Firewall Manager generally available as the Network Security Hub — a centralized management experience that consolidates Azure Firewall, Web Application Firewall (WAF), and DDoS Protection to simplify policy, visibility, and protection across deployments.