Controlling Data Egress in Azure
Summary: Regulated companies impose stringent requirements on data governance to prevent data exfiltration. As a Cloud Architect, ensuring the safe and efficient exit of data from our network to external…
10/06/2024
Using Admin State to Control Your Azure Load Balancer Backend Instances
Today, Azure Load Balancer distributes incoming traffic across healthy backend pool instances. It accomplishes this by using health probes to send periodic requests to the instances and check for valid responses. Results from the health probe then determine which instances can receive new or continued connections and which ones cannot.…
30/05/2024Azure Network Security
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