Virtual Network Services Roadmap

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Virtual network services provide the basic connectivity and network management for services and resources used by customers in Azure.

Product: Virtual Network Services

Near Term (2026)

Virtual Networks support for mesh connectivity is in preview and enables customers to group up to 5,000 virtual networks in a mesh configuration. This eliminates the need to set up manual peerings between networks as well as reducing the number of hops between networks.

Azure DNS has seen a number of feature enhancements, including:

Support for DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) available in US Government and China regions, in addition to public zones

DNS security policy, including the ability to query and analyze logs

DNS-based public load balancing for Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager

Ability of Private DNS zones to fall back to public Internet DNS

Azure Private Link has seen a steady stream of feature enhancements, including integration with Copilot in Azure to answer questions about customer network resources and topology and the addition of a network security perimeter that allows customers to define a logical boundary that restricts public network access from PaaS resources.

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