Generally Available: Private Application Gateway on Azure Application Gateway v2

Generally Available: Private Application Gateway on Azure Application Gateway v2
Application Gateway v2 is announcing general availability of Private Application Gateway, which is a collection of new capabilities to the Application Gateway v2 SKU to further enhance control over network exposure.
The following capabilities are now generally available in Application Gateway v2:

• Private IP only frontend configuration (elimination of Public IP)
• Enhanced control over Network Securtiy Groups
  Eliminate Gateway Manager service tag requirement
  Enable definition of Deny All Outbound rule
• Enhanced control over Route Table rules
  Forced Tunnelling Support (learning of 0.0.0.0/0 route via BGP)
  Route Table rule of 0.0.0.0/0 next hop Virtual Appliance

Generally Available: Azure 128 &192 vCPU sizes for the Esv6 and Edsv6 series VMs
These new VM sizes offer up to 192 vCPUs and 1832 GiB of RAM, making them ideal for enterprise-scale applications such as in-memory analytics, large relational databases, and in-memory cache workloads. With Intel® Total Memory Encryption (Intel TME) and NVMe-enabled local and remote storage, these VMs deliver both performance and security at scale.

Key Highlights

• Memory-Optimized Performance: Up to 1832 GiB of RAM for memory intensive workloads.
• Azure Boost: Up to 400K IOPS and 12 GB/s remote storage throughput with 200 Gbps network bandwidth.
• Security First: Intel TME ensures data protection in system memory.
• NVMe Interface: 3X improvement in local storage IOPS for low-latency access.