Future-Proofing Your Azure NSG: Alternative to Deprecated Azure Content Delivery Service Tags

Gijs Reijn
7 min readJun 14, 2024

Last Friday, Microsoft Azure brought upcoming changes to two important service tags. Those are the AzureUpdateDelivery and AzureFrontDoor.FirstParty service tags.

Figure 1 — Service tags on NSG

Both service tags combined, make it easy for you to allow updating safely onto your Azure VM workloads, especially when working in a closed-off…

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Gijs Reijn

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