Load Balancing

Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: 8 minutes and 11 seconds
Students: 7,212
Rating: 4.7/5

Microsoft Azure supports a variety of options for both internal and external networking. In this lesson, you will learn how to design a network implementation using the appropriate Azure services.

Some of the highlights include:

  • Configuring virtual networks to connect Azure resources to each other
  • Deploying public and private load balancers to distribute incoming traffic to a pool of backend VMs
  • Load balancing across multiple regions using Azure Traffic Manager
  • Connecting on-premises networks to Azure either directly using ExpressRoute or over the internet through a site-to-site or point-to-site VPN
  • Overriding system default routes to meet your own custom routing needs
  • Protecting your applications from attacks with a web application firewall
  • Using network security groups to create a demilitarized zone (DMZ)
  • Building hybrid applications that include both Azure and on-premises resources using Azure Relay
  • Copying on-premises data to Azure using Data Factory, the Self-hosted Integration Runtime, and the On-Premises Data Gateway

Learning Objectives

  • Design Azure virtual networks
  • Design external connectivity for Azure virtual networks
  • Design network security strategies for Azure
  • Design connectivity for hybrid Azure applications

Intended Audience

  • People who want to become Azure cloud architects
  • People preparing for a Microsoft Azure certification exam

Prerequisites

  • General knowledge of IT infrastructure and networking
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