Introducing the new Azure Front Door: Reimagined for modern apps and content

By Dustin Ward

This blog has been co-authored by Jessie Jia, Senior Program Manager, Azure Networking and Gunjan Jain, Principal Program Manager, Azure Networking. In 2019, we launched Azure Front Door to bring enterprise-grade content delivery network (CDN) capabilities to our customers. This was a result of our own cloud journey over the past 13 years, which led…

Manage port forwarding for backend pool with Azure Load Balancer

By Dustin Ward

Starting today, Azure Load Balancer enables customers to manage port forwarding for Virtual Machine Scale Sets or a group of virtual machines in a backend pool with a single set-up with minimum management overhead. What is port forwarding? Port forwarding lets you connect to specific virtual machines by using the Load Balancer frontend IP address…

Secure your APIs with Private Link support for Azure API Management

By Dustin Ward

Azure API Management is a fully managed service that enables customers to publish, secure, transform, maintain, and monitor APIs. With a few clicks in the Azure portal, you can create an API facade that acts as a “front door” through which external and internal applications can access data or business logic implemented by your custom-built…

Improve your security defenses for ransomware attacks with Azure Firewall

By Dustin Ward

To ensure customers running on Azure are protected against ransomware attacks, Microsoft has invested heavily in Azure security and has provided customers with the security controls needed to protect their Azure cloud workloads. A comprehensive overview of best practices and recommendations can be found in the “Azure Defenses for Ransomware Attack” e-book. Here, we would like…