Securing Inbound Access to Azure App services using Azure Private Link

Microsoft has recently released a Public Preview of Private Link for Azure App Service.  This preview is available in limited regions for all PremiumV2 Windows and Linux web apps. Until this point securing App Services through Virtual Network Isolation was only possible through App Service Environments(ASE). ASE’s are generally expensive and have long initial deployment cycles as a drawback. Private

Reducing latency through Proximity Placement groups in Azure

As a followup to my earlier blog post on Accelerated networking on Azure i am looking at other options available in Azure to reduce latency for Azure VM’s. When you place your Azure VM’s in a single region, the physical distance between VM’s is reduced. Placing them within a single availability zone is another step you can take to deploy