Chapter 5

Design and implement private access to Azure services

Most of the services in Azure are public endpoints and publicly accessible by default. For some security requirements or routing efficiency concerns, that is not always necessarily what an organization wants for its services. For example, most organizations do not want Azure SQL databases to be accessible over the internet.

This chapter introduces Private Link, which enables you to publish your own applications and make them accessible privately. Then private endpoints can be used to consume those services as well as Azure’s services.

Service endpoints introduce how to optimize any possible routing inefficiencies that site-to-site VPNs or ExpressRoute might introduce. Service tags ...

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