Secure Private Access to Azure Resources

Private access to Azure resources is essential to securing our organization’s data and applications in the cloud. With Azure, we can configure our resources to only allow access from trusted networks or specific IP addresses. This helps to prevent unauthorized access and keep our data safe. Azure offers several private networking options, such as Azure Private Link, VNet service endpoints, and virtual network peering. By leveraging these features, we can create a secure and isolated environment for our Azure resources while allowing access to authorized users and services. This lesson will explore the various options for private access to Azure resources and how they can help us secure our organization’s data and applications in the cloud.

Some key components that are essential to protect workload are:

Virtual network peering (VNet)

VNet peering allows secure and private communication between two VNets within the same region and enables us to connect two VNets in different regions through global VNet peering. VNet Peering uses the Microsoft backbone network (Azure’s global network infrastructure) to exchange traffic between the peer networks.

The benefits of VNet Peering include:

• It creates an internal connection between Azure Virtual Networks without leaving our virtual data center environment. This makes it easier to manage communication between resources located across multiple regions in a very cost-effective manner.

• Additionally, traffic sent through this connection will not pass through any public internet gateway, so we can have complete control over our data security and privacy while connecting easily with other services or applications hosted on another VNet.

Let’s suppose that we are generating some data using a virtual machine with a public IP, and we want the data to be safe and not accessible publicly. We’ll have to create a new virtual machine in another virtual network with no public IP and, hence, no public access. Now, how would we send data to this private virtual machine if it does not allow public access? This is where VNet peering comes in. ...