Kubernetes was designed around a simple networking model, every pod gets one network interface, and every pod on a node shares the same flat network. For most stateless microservices, this works well...

Site-to-Site (S2S) VPN connections are a critical component of hybrid connectivity between Azure and on-premises environments. A tunnel outage can impact applications, user access, and business opera...

We are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of network security perimeter metrics, a capability that helps administrators monitor network access patterns, understand the impact of t...

  Introduction One of the most common questions during Azure networking troubleshooting is: “Did anything change before the issue started?” Whether we are investigating VPN/, connectivity pro...

Sudha Mahajan, Partner PM Azure Networking, Vijay Mamtani, CVP Azure Networking | September 2026 Lift-and-shift succeeds when the network moves with the application  For many VMware customers, th...

Organizations are modernizing their networks while managing a growing mix of applications, protocols, and security requirements. Recent Azure Firewall releases strengthen this journey with simpler...

We are excited to announce the general availability of explicit proxy in Azure Firewall. This capability brings the familiar explicit proxy configuration model natively to Azure Firewall, enabling ap...

Introduction Large Azure hub-and-spoke environments can advertise a significant number of routes toward on-premises networks. By default, Azure VPN Gateway and ExpressRoute Gateway advertise the ad...

Multicloud is no longer the exception — it is how most enterprises operate. Teams run analytics in one cloud and applications in another, place workloads to meet data-residency requirements, and incr...

Introduction Traffic Manager linked records creates a direct, managed link between an Azure DNS record set and a Traffic Manager profile. When a query arrives, Azure DNS evaluates the linked Traffi...