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Azure ExpressRoute

2023-07-12T03:22:28+00:00

Bookmarks Features Use Cases Pricing Validate Your Knowledge Azure ExpressRoute Cheat Sheet Enables you to establish a private connection between your on-premises data center or corporate network to your Azure cloud infrastructure. More secure, reliable, and faster than conventional VPN connections. Supports dynamic routing between your network and Microsoft via Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). The connection is redundant in every peering location for higher reliability. Features ExpressRoute connections enable access to Microsoft Azure services and Microsoft Office 365 services from your on-premises network. Provides connectivity to all regions within a geopolitical region. To [...]

Azure ExpressRoute2023-07-12T03:22:28+00:00

Azure Front Door

2023-07-10T09:41:47+00:00

Azure Front Door Cheat Sheet A service that uses Microsoft's global network to improve the availability and performance of your applications to your local and global users. It works at the HTTP/HTTPS layer and uses a split TCP-based anycast protocol to ensure your users connect to the nearest Front Door point of presence. Supports a range of traffic-routing methods and backend health monitoring options for various application needs and automatic failover models. With URL-based routing, it routes the traffic to backend pools based on URL paths of the request. You can configure more than one website on the same Front [...]

Azure Front Door2023-07-10T09:41:47+00:00

Azure Virtual Network (VNet)

2023-10-23T07:00:00+00:00

Bookmarks Key Concepts VNet Use Case Subnets Security VNet Components VNet Peering Pricing How to Connect Virtual Networks Across Azure regions with Azure Global VNet Peering Validate Your Knowledge Azure Virtual Network Cheat Sheet You can create a virtual network in the cloud dedicated to your Azure account. It is the fundamental building block where you can launch Azure resources. Azure VNet is the networking layer of Azure VMs. A VNet spans all the Availability Zones in the region. After creating a VNet, you can add one or [...]

Azure Virtual Network (VNet)2023-10-23T07:00:00+00:00

Azure DNS

2023-07-03T06:52:23+00:00

Bookmarks Private DNS Security Pricing Validate Your Knowledge Azure DNS Cheat Sheet Enables you to host your DNS zone and manage your DNS records. DNS zone allows you to configure a private and public DNS zone. Alias recordsets: A - maps the host to IPv4. AAAA - maps the host to IPv6. CNAME - create a record to point to another domain. A limit of 20 alias record sets per resource. Uses Anycast networking to route users to the closest name servers. You can monitor your DNS zone metrics using Azure Monitor. QueryVolume [...]

Azure DNS2023-07-03T06:52:23+00:00

Azure Traffic Manager

2023-03-08T03:09:25+00:00

Azure Traffic Manager Cheat Sheet A DNS-based traffic load balancer. Improves the responsiveness of your applications by sending the request to the closest endpoint. It offers a range of traffic-routing methods and endpoint monitoring options. Features It is resilient to failure. You can obtain actionable insights about your users using a traffic view. Improve the availability of your applications by using traffic manager health checks. Offers automatic failover when an endpoint goes down. Traffic Manager endpoints: Azure, External, and Nested Combine multiple traffic-routing methods using nested traffic manager profiles. Routing Methods Priority - allows you to set a primary endpoint [...]

Azure Traffic Manager2023-03-08T03:09:25+00:00

Azure Content Delivery Network

2023-06-26T05:04:40+00:00

Bookmarks Features How Caching Works Pricing Limits Azure Content Delivery Network Cheat Sheet A distributed network of servers that delivers web content closer to users. CDNs store cache content on edge servers to minimize end-user latency. Features Improves the performance of dynamic web pages using dynamic site acceleration. You can set two types of caching rules in Azure CDN: Global caching rule - overrides any HTTP cache-directive headers. Custom caching rule - you can set a rule to match specific paths and file extensions. Types of origin: Storage Storage Static website Cloud service [...]

Azure Content Delivery Network2023-06-26T05:04:40+00:00

Azure Application Gateway

2023-06-23T20:36:26+00:00

Azure Application Gateway Cheat Sheet A web traffic load balancer. It allows you to distribute incoming traffic based on HTTP request properties such as URL and host headers. Application gateway has four tiers: Standard, Standard V2, WAF, and WAF v2 You can use the same application gateway for up to 100+ websites with multi-site hosting. Set the minimum and maximum scale units based on your needs. Azure Application Gateway vs Azure Load Balancer An application gateway operates at layer 7. A load balancer functions at layer 4. You can use both public and private IP on the frontend. Features Secure [...]

Azure Application Gateway2023-06-23T20:36:26+00:00

Azure VPN Gateway

2023-06-26T05:15:20+00:00

Bookmarks Routing Connection Resiliency Pricing Validate Your Knowledge Azure VPN Gateway Cheat Sheet A secured hybrid cloud architecture. It is composed of gateway subnet, tunnel, and on-premises gateway. Protocols: Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) and Internet Key Exchange (IKE) VPN gateway connections: VNet-to-VNet, Site-to-Site, and Point-to-Site Create a secure connection from your on-premises network to an Azure virtual network with a site-to-site VPN. VNet-to-VNet connection automatically routes to the updated address space, if you updated the address space on the other VNet. If you need to establish a connection to your virtual network from [...]

Azure VPN Gateway2023-06-26T05:15:20+00:00

Azure Load Balancer

2023-07-03T07:12:31+00:00

Bookmarks Features Concepts Pricing How to Create a Load Balancer Validate Your Knowledge Azure Load Balancer Cheat Sheet Distributes incoming network traffic across multiple targets. Allows you to route traffic based on source IP address and port to a destination IP address and port. Features The load balancer supports TCP/UDP-based protocols. Scales automatically as traffic increases. The load-balancing decision is based on the following tuple connection: Source IP address and port Destination IP address and port Protocol NAT allows you to control the inbound and outbound network traffic. Inbound rules -  traffic [...]

Azure Load Balancer2023-07-03T07:12:31+00:00

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