AKS managedNATGatewayV2: Zone-Redundant Egress Now in Preview

This article covers the new managedNATGatewayV2 outbound type for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), currently in public preview. It highlights zone redundancy as the key improvement over the original managedNATGateway, which is tied to a single availability zone. The V2 version uses the StandardV2 NAT gateway SKU, offering built-in zone redundancy, IPv6 outbound support, and flow logs. The article explains why this matters for multi-zone clusters, provides a comparison table, details how to enable it via the aks-preview CLI extension, and notes important design decisions like immutable outbound IP model selection at cluster creation.