concepts

• VNP

  • Designed for isolation, segmentation, communication, filtering, routing between resources
  • Composed of one or multiple subnets
  • Can reside only in one region
  • To connect multiple VNP we use VNET peering or VNP Gateway

• VPN Gateway

  • Connect to on-premise
  • Connect to other VPN (rarely used)

• Load Balancer

  • Even traffic distribution
  • Supports both inbound and outbound scenarios
  • Can be private (internal) or public
  • Used for high availability and scalability scenarios

• Application Gateway

  • Web traffic load balancer
  • Web app firewall
  • Redirection
  • Session affinity
  • URL routing
  • SSL termination

• Content Delivery Network

  • Deliver web content to users
  • Minimize latency
  • POP (points of presence) locations