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 (2025–2026)

Basic public IP addresses will be retired on Sept. 30, 2025. Customers must migrate to Standard public IP addresses. Standard addresses are statically assigned and offer a number of advantages, including the ability to be zone redundant and have more granular control over security and routing.

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

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