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…

The intersection of edge computing, telecommunications networks, and the cloud

By Dustin Ward

It’s been 12-plus years since we embarked on the paradigm-shifting edge computing story, which brings the cloud closer to the source of data generation and consumption. Nowadays, the cloud provides resource-rich compute and storage capabilities, remote management, and new applications and services as latency continues to be reduced. Edge computing has gone mainstream, as evidenced…