Azure Front Door

Generally Available: Exceptions in WAF for Azure Application Gateway and Azure Front Door

Announcing the general availability of exceptions for Web Application Firewall on Azure Application Gateway and Azure Front Door.

Public Preview: Azure Front Door profile and route level WAF policies

Azure Front Door’s Web Application Firewall (WAF) now supports profile and route level WAF policy associations in public preview.

Generally Available: Batch rule updates for Azure Front Door

Batch rule updates are now generally available for Azure Front Door Standard and Premium. This capability enables customers to add, update, delete, or reorder multiple rules in a rule set as a coordinated operation, ensuring that all changes are applied together or not applied…

Public Preview: Azure Front Door mutual TLS

Mutual TLS, also known as client certificate authentication, enables Azure Front Door to authenticate clients using X.509 certificates before requests reach an application.

Public Preview: Azure Front Door edge actions

Announcing the public preview of Azure Front Door edge actions (serverless compute at the edge).

Public Preview: Exceptions in WAF for Azure Application Gateway and Azure Front Door

Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) helps protect your web applications from common threats and attacks. In some cases, WAF may block requests that are safe and expected for your application.

Generally Available: Azure Front Door WebSocket

Azure Front Door Standard and Premium now support WebSocket in general availability. WebSocket is enabled by default and requires no additional configuration.

Public Preview: Microsoft HTTP DDoS Ruleset for Azure WAF on Azure Front Door Premium

Announcing the public preview of the HTTP DDoS Ruleset on Azure Front Door Premium.

Generally Available: Default Rule Set 2.2 and updates to ruleset support policy

We are updating the managed ruleset support policy for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) following the general availability of Default Rule Set (DRS) 2.2 on Azure Application Gateway and Azure Front Door.

Generally Available: Azure Front Door Premium now supports Azure Private Link origins in UAE North

You can now set UAE North as a region for Azure Private Link-enabled origins in your Azure Front Door Premium profile.

Retirement: Azure Front Door and Azure CDN profiles will end support for DHE cipher suites on April 1, 2026

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, Azure Front Door (Standard, Premium, Classic) and Azure CDN from Microsoft (Classic) services will no longer support weak cipher suites TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 and TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 on April 1 2026 for…