Networking
Connect cloud and on-premises infrastructure and services, to provide your customers and users the best possible experience
Support your hybrid or all-in cloud strategy using networking services built on one of the largest fibre network backbones. Get the most from your Azure or open-source solutions and workloads with highly reliable performance and secure connectivity.
Rely on a global network
Build your network in the cloud to reach your customers, on-premises users and resources on a global scale.
Seamlessly deploy your advanced networking infrastructure using a highly available global Azure DNS with your Azure Virtual Network resources. Optimise applications across Azure Availability Zones and multiple regions with Azure Load Balancer. Build scalable, secure and highly available web front-ends in Azure with Azure Application Gateway. Accelerate performance and availability of your content to customers worldwide with Azure Content Delivery Network.
Secure your apps and infrastructure
Provide a secure environment for your data with more compliance certification offerings than any other cloud service provider.
Limit traffic to resources and applications in your virtual network with network security groups. Configure network security as an extension of your application’s structure and replicate your security policy with application security groups. Protect your applications from web vulnerabilities and exploits with web application firewall. Extend basic threat and DDoS protection with Azure DDoS Protection, offering resource-level protection, logging, alerting and telemetry to further protect your virtual network from attacks.
Intelligently monitor your resources
Create a monitoring strategy to determine the effectiveness of your applications and resources.
Gain insight into the performance of all your applications, services and resources using integrated tools and services in Azure, including Network Performance Monitor (NPM) which is part of the Azure Log Analytics suite. Monitor end-to-end connectivity and performance between your branch offices and Azure using NPM for Azure ExpressRoute. Track the performance, security and health of your infrastructure with the tools available in Azure Monitor. Quickly diagnose problems and mitigate issues in your network with packet capturing, flow log analysis and alerting in Azure Network Watcher.
Make reliable, private connections
Add connectivity to your cloud resources, making Azure a natural extension of your existing network.
Create a private and fast network connection to Azure with Azure ExpressRoute and take advantage of a global network owned and operated by Microsoft. Connect two Azure virtual networks anywhere without the overhead of using gateways to broker the connection with virtual network peering. Securely and privately access your Azure resources with built-in VPN capabilities in Azure Virtual Network. You’ll find point-to-site functionality and site-to-site options for region to region or connectivity to your own data centre with multiple bandwidth options and support from multiple leading appliance vendors.
Find the networking product that you need
| If you want to... | Use this |
|---|---|
| Connect everything from virtual machines to incoming VPN connections | Virtual Network |
| Balance inbound and outbound connections and requests to your applications or service endpoints | Load Balancer |
| Optimise delivery from application server farms while increasing application security with a web application firewall | Application Gateway |
| Securely use the Internet to access Azure Virtual Networks with high-performance VPN gateways | VPN Gateway |
| Ensure ultra-fast DNS responses and ultra-high availability for all your domain needs | Azure DNS |
| Accelerate the delivery of high-bandwidth content to customers worldwide – from applications and stored content to streaming video | Content Delivery Network |
| Protect your Azure applications from the impacts of DDoS attacks | Azure DDoS Protection |
| Distribute traffic optimally to services across global Azure regions, while providing high availability and responsiveness | Traffic Manager |
| Add private network connectivity to access Microsoft cloud services from your corporate networks, as if they were on-premises residing in your own data centre | Azure ExpressRoute |
| Monitor and diagnose conditions at a network-scenario level | Network Watcher |
| Native firewalling capabilities with built-in high availability, unrestricted cloud scalability and zero maintenance | Azure Firewall |
| Connect business offices, retail locations and sites securely with Virtual WAN, a unified wide-area network portal powered by Azure and the Microsoft global network | Virtual WAN |
| Scalable, security-enhanced delivery point for global, microservice-based web applications | Azure Front Door |
| Private and fully managed RDP and SSH access to your virtual machines | Azure Bastion |
| Private access to services hosted on the Azure platform, keeping your data on the Microsoft network | Azure Private Link |
| Test how networking infrastructure changes will affect your customers’ performance. | Azure Internet Analyzer |
Customers are doing great things with Azure networking products
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