Azure this week: Front Door TLS groups and WAF Insights

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Front Door now supports hybrid post-quantum key exchange for its TLS connections. Plus WAF Insights, Defender IoT OT exit, Site Recovery updates, and four more Azure updates this week.

Front Door also lets you disable the AES 128 GCM SHA256 cipher suite on those TLS connections.

Application Gateway WAF Insights dashboards combine WAF logs and metrics, so you can investigate blocked requests without writing queries.

Defender for IoT OT will be fully deprecated in October 2029, with Armis, Dragos and Forescout connectors offered during the transition.

Site Recovery now replicates Azure Local VMs to Azure for failover and failback, and improves recovery for flexible scale sets.

Multi-disk crash-consistent restore points for VMs now cover Premium SSD v2 and Ultra data disks in preview, with Instant Access.

Fluid Relay will be retired on June 2, 2027, so move to the self-hosted Fluid service before then.

PostgreSQL Flexible Server's stable API adds immutable backups and upgrade prechecks, and VNet servers can switch to private endpoints.

Service Bus Premium Geo-Replication now works on partitioned namespaces, replicating messages and metadata to a secondary region.

That's your week in Azure. The one to act on is Fluid Relay, by February 2, 2027, and another deadline follows in October 2029.

Follow for next week's Azure updates. The full list is at cloud changelog dot com.