Networking

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Azure Application Gateway

Azure Application Gateway is a web traffic load balancer that helps manage and optimize the delivery of web applications. It acts as an entry point for incoming traffic, distributing requests to multiple backend servers.

Azure Application Proxy

Azure Application Proxy is a feature of Microsoft Entra ID that provides secure remote access to on-premises web applications. It allows users to access internal applications from anywhere without the need for a VPN, using a secure external URL.

Azure Bastion

Azure Bastion is a fully-managed PaaS service that provides secure and seamless RDP and SSH access to your virtual machines directly through the Azure portal, without exposing them to the public internet.

Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN)

Azure CDN is a global solution for rapidly delivering high-bandwidth content to users by caching content at strategically placed physical nodes across the world. It improves performance, scalability, and security for web applications and content delivery.

Azure Express Route

Azure ExpressRoute provides a dedicated private connection between your on-premises network and Azure, bypassing the public internet. This solution is ideal for enterprise-level connectivity that requires high bandwidth, low latency, and enhanced security.

Azure Front Door

Azure Front Door is a modern cloud content delivery network (CDN) service that delivers high performance, scalability, and secure user experiences for your content and applications. It provides global load balancing, application acceleration, and security features to ensure your applications are fast, reliable, and secure.

Azure Load Balancer

Azure Load Balancer provides high availability and network performance by distributing incoming traffic among multiple virtual machines (VMs). It offers load balancing for various protocols and ensures your applications are resilient and scalable.

Azure Load Balancing

Azure Load Balancing is a core feature of Microsoft Azure’s cloud services, designed to distribute incoming network traffic across multiple resources, such as virtual machines (VMs) or containers. This ensures high availability, scalability, and fault tolerance for applications hosted in the Azure cloud. Load balancing helps you handle traffic efficiently, improve application performance, and maintain reliability even during failures or traffic spikes.

Azure Point-to-Site VPN

Azure Point-to-Site (P2S) VPN allows you to create a secure connection to your Azure virtual network from an individual client computer. It is ideal for telecommuters who need to connect to Azure virtual networks from remote locations, such as from home or a conference.

Azure Private Link & Endpoint

Azure Private Link provides a secure and scalable way to consume Azure services and resources over a private endpoint in your virtual network. By using Private Link, you can ensure that traffic between your virtual network and the Azure service remains on the Microsoft backbone network, reducing the risk of exposure to the public internet.

Azure Remote Connectivity

Remote connectivity enables the secure and efficient connection of on-premises networks, users, and cloud resources. It allows you to establish a reliable link between your on-premises environment and Azure, or between different Azure regions, enabling workloads to communicate seamlessly. This document covers the types of remote connectivity methods for on-premises-to-Azure connections, single-user remote access, and the devices (appliances) that facilitate these connections. Additionally, it highlights security considerations and the impact of downtime on these remote connectivity solutions.

Azure Route Tables

Routing in Azure involves directing traffic between different Azure resources and networks using routing tables, network security groups, and routing protocols such as BGP, to optimize performance, security, and availability.

Azure Service Endpoints

This page explains how to set up and use Azure Service Endpoints to secure and optimize access to Azure services from your virtual network.

Azure Subnet

An Azure subnet is a logical subdivision of an Azure virtual network used to group resources together and isolate traffic within a defined range of IP addresses.

Azure Traffic Analytics

Azure Traffic Analytics is a cloud-based solution that provides visibility into your network traffic by analyzing Network Security Group (NSG) flow logs. It helps you monitor and diagnose network issues, detect security threats, and optimize network performance.

Azure Traffic Manager

Azure Traffic Manager is a DNS-based traffic load balancer that enables you to distribute traffic to your public-facing applications across global Azure regions. It provides high availability, performance, and responsiveness by directing client requests to the most appropriate service endpoint based on traffic-routing methods.

Azure Virtual WAN

Azure Virtual WAN is a networking service that provides optimized and automated branch connectivity to, and through, Azure. It allows you to securely connect your branches, remote users, and cloud-based services in a unified and centralized manner.

Azure VNet

A Virtual Network (VNet) is a logically isolated network in the cloud

Azure VNet Gateway

Azure VNet Gateway enables encrypted traffic between Azure virtual networks and on-premises locations over the public Internet. It supports encrypted traffic between Azure virtual networks for secure hybrid and cloud-only environments.

Azure VNet Peering

A simple example of VNet peering in Azure using a classic hub-spoke model where the two spoke vNets cannot peer together directly


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