Azure Bastion – Gaining the Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification
It is common practice to make a remote desktop connection to a Windows machine using the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). The port is 3389. RDP may not be supported in some company scenarios due to security restrictions. Instead, you can use Azure Bastion to connect over port 443 from within the Azure portal. The connection between you and the Azure VM is confined to the Microsoft Azure internal network and does not traverse the Internet.
Azure ExpressRoute
Making a secured connection between your private datacenter and Azure requires a connection of some kind. You might be able to simply expose an endpoint on your local firewall and allow traffic into your intranet. This might not be the most secure approach, but it is possible. Another approach is a virtual private network (VPN), which is a more secure connection between two entities across the public Internet. A VPN does have capacity constraints and the traffic does travers the Internet. An Azure ExpressRoute is useful for enterprises that need a secure, high‐capacity connection from their private datacenters to the Azure platform that does not traverse the Internet.
Azure Compute
Renting computers was the original cloud service offering. The ability to provision a computer when you need it and then decommission it when it’s no longer needed is very cost effective. Also, no longer having to worry about the networking and datacenter security is a very attractive part of running IT operations in the cloud.
Azure Virtual Machines
An Azure virtual machine (Azure VM) is an allocation of a CPU and memory from a larger host machine. This is the IaaS service offering from Azure. There is a great variety of sizes that are optimized for high CPU or high memory compute requirements.
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Once upon a time, it took some effort to scale out instances of Azure VMs. Historically, when you chose IaaS as your cloud solution, the code running on it was expected to run on a single instance. As time changes, so do expectations. Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) is a solution that simplifies the scaling out of identical instances of a single Azure VM when required.
Azure App Service Web Apps
Azure App Service Web Apps is a PaaS cloud service offering. This product offers web application and website hosting services. The beauty of this is the scalability. When you need to add an additional server to run your code, click a button and it will be added and online within a few moments. This is also a great place to host REST APIs for your customers or partners to consume. Lastly, there is a service named WebJobs that supports the scheduling and execution of small‐ to middle‐scale batch jobs.
It is common practice to make a remote desktop connection to a Windows machine using the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). The port is 3389. RDP may not be supported in some company scenarios due to security restrictions. Instead, you can use Azure Bastion to connect over port 443 from within the Azure portal. The connection…
