Azure Networking Services
Connect, Manage and Secure Cloud Resources Better than Ever
Introduction
Networking is a vital component of any cloud infrastructure that can make or break a cloud deployment. IT teams need to connect resources and optimize application performance, which depends on your robust network architecture.
Microsoft Azure Networking services provides several capabilities to connect and manage your cloud resources securely. Azure networking by virtue of its various networking capabilities offers customers and users a delightful experience by patching cloud and on-premises infrastructure and services. It’s built on one of the biggest fiber networks. Hence, it can support your hybrid or all-in-cloud strategy. It yields higher performance and connectivity levels.
SR Cloud Solutions leverages Azure networking capabilities to develop architecture for cloud-centric WANs, design and implementation of Azure networking services, and ongoing management of your networking environments in Azure enabling highly reliable performance and secure connectivity. Our networking services include
Azure Networking Services
The networking services in Azure provide a variety of networking capabilities that can be used together or separately:.
Connectivity Services
Connect Azure resources and on-premises resources using any or a combination of these networking services in Azure - Virtual Network (VNet), Virtual WAN, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway, Virtual network NAT Gateway, Azure DNS, Peering service, and Azure Bastion.
Network Monitoring
Monitor your network resources using any or a combination of these networking services in Azure - Network Watcher, ExpressRoute Monitor, Azure Monitor, or VNet Terminal Access Point (TAP).
Application Protection Services
Protect your applications using any or a combination of these networking services in Azure - Load Balancer, Private Link, DDoS protection, Firewall, Network Security Groups, Web Application Firewall, and Virtual Network Endpoints.
Application Delivery Services
Deliver applications in the Azure network using any or a combination of these networking services in Azure - Content Delivery Network (CDN), Azure Front Door Service, Traffic Manager, Application Gateway, Internet Analyzer, and Load Balancer.
Why choose SR Cloud Solutions?
We provide top-tier Azure managed services to help reduce operational risks. Our experts possess the skillset, insights, and experience required to migrate and manage the entirety of your cloud lifecycle with diligence.
We take care of everything from developing personalised cloud solutions to managing workload migrations. When it comes to stellar cloud management and monitoring, we’re the best in the game.
Also, we assist users to reduce security risks and ensure that the firm doesn’t fall victim to modern cloud security problems. From managing multi-cloud environments to ensuring compliance, we take care of it all.
- The best technology – highest levels of accreditation with the world’s leading vendors such as Microsoft, Cisco, Fortinet, and Palo Alto.
- Skills and expertise with a UK-based 24/7 Network Operations Centre (NOC).
- We are a Joscar accredited business which means we are certified to work with leading defense companies who require the highest standards of cyber security.
- We are experts in Cloud infrastructures such as Microsoft Azure so we can provide expert consultancy on migrations, hybrid cloud environments, security, cost optimisations, application modernisation and cloud governance.
Book a meeting with one of our consultants to learn more about our Azure Networking Services.
Azure Network Technologies
Azure ExpressRoute
It offers a faster, private connection to Azure with lower latency and increase reliability and speed. It does not jump over the public network and connects directly to your WAN and on-premises networks with Microsoft global network.
This cloud integration alternative yields significant cost benefits. These connections enable access to Microsoft Cloud services – Microsoft Azure Services and Microsoft 365 service.
Virtual Networks
It is a key constituent of your private network in Azure, and powers different Azure resources to communicate with each other, the internet, and on-premises networks. It provides you a highly secure and reliable environment for your applications and creates an infrastructure you can control.
You can also build advanced network topologies using network virtual appliances (NVAs). Define traffic flows between subnets and gain granular control over it.
Azure Bastion
It’s a fully managed PaaS service that offers reliable and no-fuss Remote Desktop (RDP) client and SSH access to your virtual machines through the Azure platform, without the hassle of managing network security policies.
It uses secure SSL/TLS encryption. Your virtual machines do not need a public IP address. It enables you to contain threats like port scanning and other malware. Azure Bastion resize itself based on the number of virtual connections.
Azure Front Door
It is a scalable service for protecting web applications, and a secure entry point for quick delivery. It offers a centralized control plan to manage traffic and gleans actionable insights about your users and back ends.
It has global HTTP load balancing that empowers users to create applications across regions and provide them an “always-on” web site availability experience. It delivers high quality and high-performance services.
Azure Load Balancer
It’s a high-performance, Layer 4 load-balancing service that delivers network performance to your applications. It offers native IPv6 support and adds scale and reliability to your applications. It directly integrates into your virtual machines and cloud services.
It offers Native IPVv6 and flexible NAT rules to provide better security services. It automatically scales as the application traffic increases. As a result of using ALB your customers will experience an enhanced user experience.
Azure VIRTUAL WAN
Azure Virtual WAN is a networking service that brings many networking, security, and routing functionalities together to provide a single operational interface. Some of the main features include:
- Branch connectivity (via connectivity automation from Virtual WAN Partner devices such as SD-WAN or VPN CPE).
- Site-to-site VPN connectivity.
- Remote user VPN connectivity (point-to-site).
- Private connectivity (ExpressRoute).
- Intra-cloud connectivity (transitive connectivity for virtual networks).
- VPN ExpressRoute inter-connectivity.
- Routing, Azure Firewall, and encryption for private connectivity.
You don’t have to have all of these use cases to start using Virtual WAN. You can get started with just one use case, and then adjust your network as it evolves.
Azure VPN Gateway
It is a certain type of virtual network gateway that helps you establish secure, cross-premises encrypted traffic between your Azure virtual network and on-premises IT infrastructure.
Composed of two VMs, users can create a gateway-specific subnet, these VPN gateways can be deployed in Azure availability zones to add scalability and resilience to virtual network gateways. These gateways leverage browser-based SSL VPN plug-ins for building connections.
Azure Application Gateway
Azure Application Gateway is a web traffic load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications. It is an Application Delivery Controller (ADC) as a service, offering various layer 7 load-balancing capabilities for your applications.
Content Delivery Network
Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) offers developers a global solution for rapidly delivering high-bandwidth content to users by caching their content at strategically placed physical nodes across the world.
Azure Traffic Manager
Azure Traffic Manager is a DNS-based traffic load balancer that enables you to distribute traffic optimally to services across global Azure regions, while providing high availability and responsiveness. Traffic Manager provides a range of traffic-routing methods to distribute traffic such as priority, weighted, performance, geographic, multi-value, or subnet.
Azure Private Link
Azure Private Link enables you to access Azure PaaS Services (for example, Azure Storage and SQL Database) and Azure hosted customer-owned/partner services over a private endpoint in your virtual network. Traffic between your virtual network and the service travels through the Microsoft backbone network. Exposing your service to the public internet is no longer necessary. You can create your own private link service in your virtual network and deliver it to your customers.
Benefits of Azure networking
Build a hybrid infrastructure that you control
Create private virtual networks to extend your on-premises IT environment to the cloud and protect your connections with options such as an IPsec VPN or Azure ExpressRoute.
Routing Optimisation
Azure offers the following services to help you optimise routing: Azure ExpressRoute—provides reliable performance of up to 100 GB per second. Azure Peering—provides optimised connectivity with a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) and software as a service (SaaS). Azure Load Balancer—directs traffic to utilise available resources and achieve optimal performance and low latency. Routing preferences—let you specify traffic routes between the Internet and Azure.
Establish sophisticated network topologies
Run your favourite network virtual appliances – such as WAN optimisers, load balancers and application firewalls – and define traffic flows to design your network with a greater degree of control.
Bring your own IP addresses and DNS servers
Treat Azure like your own datacentre – use private IP addresses and define attributes like subnets and access control policies.
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