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devanshirastogi rounds up five recent Azure Firewall capabilities—some now generally available and others in public preview—covering explicit proxy support, IPv6 dual-stack filtering, HTTP header insertion, auto-learned SNAT routes via Azure Route Server, and higher-throughput IDPS with TLS inspection for Azure Firewall Premium.

devanshirastogi announces the general availability of explicit proxy in Azure Firewall, explaining how to steer selected HTTP/HTTPS traffic through a single proxy port for centralized inspection. The post highlights managed-identity access to PAC files in Azure Blob Storage, a streamlined portal workflow, and hybrid scenarios like securing Azure Arc connectivity over ExpressRoute or VPN.

devanshirastogi explains upcoming changes to Azure Firewall explicit proxy and provides a migration walkthrough for PAC file–based setups, including moving PAC retrieval to customer-managed Azure Storage and using Managed Identity with the right RBAC roles. The guide includes portal steps plus PowerShell and Azure CLI examples for configuring Firewall Policy.