February 14, 2026

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Announcing Azure DNS Private Resolver: Now in preview – azure.microsoft.com


We offer two types of Azure DNS Zones—private and public—for hosting your private DNS and public DNS records.
Reference architecture with a hybrid setup where Express Route is configured on-prem and connected to a centralized Virtual Network on Azure. In one virtual network, there are 2 endpoints configured which are part of Azure DNS Private Resolver. The other virtual network has a workload running with private endpoints configured for a storage account
More information on additional services part of the Azure DNS offering can be found in the Azure DNS product page.
Azure Private DNS Resolver enables you to query Azure Private DNS Zones from an on-premises environment and vice versa without provisioning IaaS-based DNS solutions.
Azure DNS Private Resolver preview is being announced to all customers and will have regional availability in the following regions:
All of these regions support Availability Zones and will help with the regional and global resiliency story of customer workloads!
Customers will no longer need to provision IaaS-based solutions on their virtual networks to resolve names registered on Azure Private DNS Zones and will be able to do conditional forwarding of domains back to on-premises, across multicloud providers, and public DNS servers.
This solution will also work with your existing Azure ExpressRoute, Azure VPN or Azure Bastion setup in a seamless way.
Customers will also be able to manage their DNS settings at a Virtual Network level in a very simplified way by linking rules to each of their Virtual Networks and enabling conditional forwarding at scale.
Conditionally forward from your virtual networks to any reachable DNS server and from on-premises to Azure Private DNS Zones.
You can try Azure DNS Private Resolver today. For more information about the capabilities available, please visit the Azure DNS Private Resolver technical documentation. Post your ideas and suggestions on the networking community page. More information on additional services part of the Azure DNS offering can be found in the Azure DNS product page.
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