Learning Microsoft Azure

Chapter 4. Microsoft Azure Cloud Networking

Azure networking is essential to any public cloud; it allows us to bring both on-premise and cloud networks together. We can scale resources to meet our demands as well as protect our infrastructure; this gives us the flexibility to change to meet any resource demand that our organization or customer may need. With Azure networking, we get compliance and security. It also saves on costs and time which gives us the flexibility to adapt and meet our demands, both current and future.

Ryan O’Connell, IT Solutions Architect, Microsoft Azure MVP, Microsoft Certified Trainer, IT Manager, Blogger at RockITWorks

In Chapter 3, you learned about Azure compute services and their benefits for application development in Microsoft Azure. In this chapter we will deep dive into the concepts you need to learn to implement these compute services with the networking services in Azure. By the end of this chapter, you will have learned how you can use the appropriate networking service with existing applications. This will also help in planning networking and hybrid solutions in Azure.

Azure Networking

Azure Networking is a category of services in Microsoft Azure that provides fully managed and scalable networking and connectivity options like making a connection between your on-premises data center and the cloud. With networking services in Azure, you can also build secure virtual network infrastructure, manage your application’s network traffic, and ...