Implementing Azure Solutions

VNet peering

There is also an option to connect different Azure VNet works in the same Azure data center. This option is called Azure VNet peering. VNet peering for Azure virtual network lets you directly link two virtual networks in the same region via private IPs. VNet peering routes packets between virtual networks through the internal Azure backbone network. There is no Azure gateway between these networks. This allows a low-latency, high-bandwidth connection between virtual machines in the virtual networks.

VNet peering also allows transit through the peered virtual networks, so a network virtual appliance or a VPN gateway in one virtual network can be used by a virtual machine in another peered virtual network. Peering works across ...