AZ555944 - Public Preview: Azure virtual network routing appliance

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Published

Feb 5, 2026

Status

In preview

Timeline

  • February 2026
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Product

Virtual Network

Tag

Features
Services
Management

Category

Networking

Description

Azure Virtual Network routing appliance offers private connectivity for workloads across virtual networks. Using specialized hardware, it delivers low latency and high throughput, and optimal performance compared to virtual machines.   

Deployed into private subnet, where it acts as a managed forwarding router. Traffic can be routed using User Defined Routes (UDR) enabling spoke to spoke communication in traditional Hub & Spoke topologies.  

Configured as Azure resource, integrates seamlessly with Azure’s management and governance model. 

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