Azure Updates - Latest from Azure Charts

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

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:15:39 Z

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_SH
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure CDN, Azure Front Door, Categories: Security

Azure CDN will be retired on December 1 2025 in China

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 15:45:50 Z

Azure CDN will be retired on December 1, 2025 in China. We recognize that this change may affect your operations, and we are committed to supporting you throughout the transition. Required action: To avoid service disruption: Please migrate to Azure Front
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure CDN, Azure Front Door, Categories: Retirements

Azure CDN – Migrate to Azure Front Door on December 1, 2025

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 18:00:44 Z

Azure CDN which is currently provided in Microsoft Azure operated by 21Vianet (“Azure China”) will be retired on December 1, 2025. This change affects all customers currently using Azure CDN in China. Azure CDN is built on top of local CDN providers’ POPs
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: App Service, Azure CDN, Azure Front Door, Private Link, Categories: Security, Retirements

Azure Front Door (classic) and Azure CDN from Microsoft Classic SKU ending CNAME based domain validation and new domain/profile creations by August 15, 2025

Tue, 29 Jul 2025 14:30:43 Z

Starting August 15, 2025, Azure Front Door (classic) and Azure CDN from Microsoft Classic SKUs will no longer support new domain onboarding or profile creation. Additionally, DigiCert is deprecating CNAME-based Domain Control Validation (DCV) on the same
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure CDN, Azure Front Door, Categories: Features, Security, Services, Retirements

Azure CDN Standard/Premium from Edgio (formerly Verizon) will be retired

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 21:30:39 Z

All Azure CDN from Edgio customers must migrate their workloads to Azure Front Door or other CDN services before January 15, 2025 as Edgio has advised their platform is currently scheduled to be shut down by that date. Migrate as soon as possible to avoid
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure CDN, Azure Front Door, Categories: Retirements

Retirement: Azure CDN Standard/Premium from Edgio (formerly Verizon) will be retired

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00:00 Z

Retirement notice: Azure CDN Standard/Premium from Edgio (formerly Verizon) will be retired on November 4, 2025
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure CDN, Categories: Retirements

Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) will be retired on September 30th, 2027

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 07:00:00 Z

On September 30th, 2027, Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) will be retired. To avoid service disruptions, you’ll need to migrate to Azure Front Door Standard or Premium by that date.  As a result of this retirement, you’ll no longer be able to c
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure CDN, Azure Front Door, Categories: Retirements

Retirement: Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) will be retired on 30 September 2027

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 00:00:00 Z

Migrate to Azure Front Door Standard or Premium to avoid service disruptions.
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure CDN, Azure Front Door, Categories: Retirements

Public Preview: Azure CDN Standard From Microsoft (classic) zero-downtime migration to Azure Front Door

Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0200

Migrate Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) to Azure Front Door for enhanced security, rules engine, logging and analytics capabilities.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure CDN, Azure Front Door, Categories: Features

Public Preview: Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) zero-downtime migration to Azure Front Door

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 23:11:32 Z

Status: In Preview We are announcing the public preview of the zero-downtime migration from Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) to Azure Front Door. Azure Front Door is a modern cloud content delivery network (CDN) and global load balancer service that delivers high performance, scalability, and secure user experiences for your content, websites, API and applications. Compared with Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic), it has enhancements in security with Web Application Firewall and Bot protection, secures the origin with Private Link, supports more flexible routing logic via rules engine server variables, eliminates subdomain takeover with Deterministic Name Library integration, offers improved log & metrics and built-in report, and many more to come. The migration capability enables you to perform a zero-downtime migration from Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) to Azure Front Door Standard or Premium in just three simple steps or five simple steps if your Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) profile has custom domains with your own certificates. The migration will take a few minutes to complete depending on the complexity of your CDN profile, such as number of endpoints, domains, origins, and other configurations. To learn more about the tier migration capabilities, please refer to: About Azure CDN from Microsoft (classic) to Standard or Premium tier migration | Microsoft Learn Migrate Azure CDN from Microsoft (classic) to Azure Front Door Standard or Premium tier | Microsoft Learn Products: Azure Front Door _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Update Type: Preview, Services: App Service, Azure CDN, Azure Front Door, Private Link, Categories: Security, Services

General availability: Domain fronting update on Azure Front Door and Azure CDN

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 00:00:00 Z

Azure Front Door supports the use of different values for the TLS SNI extension and the host header, provided that both values are added as domains in the same Azure subscription.
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure CDN, Azure Front Door, Categories: Features, Security, Services

Rules Engine for Azure Front Door and Azure CDN is now generally available

Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0700

Today we are announcing the general availability of the Rules Engine feature on both Azure Front Door and Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN).
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure CDN, Azure Front Door, Categories:

Latency is the new currency of the Cloud: Announcing 31 new Azure edge sites

Tue, 27 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0700

Providing users fast and reliable access to their cloud services, apps and content is pivotal to a business’ success.The latency when accessing cloud-based services can be the inhibitor to cloud adoption or migration.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure CDN, Categories:

Announcing Microsoft’s own Content Delivery Network

Mon, 07 May 2018 00:00:00 -0700

In Azure, we understand that the breadth and scale of the cloud demands an ever-evolving commitment to continuously improve the customer experience and help our customers...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure CDN, Categories: