Azure Network Infrastructure and Design

Planning for and enabling communication between applications, components, and dependent platforms is a key part of architecting any infrastructure, regardless of where it lives. The concept of physical networking components and virtual networking components have been around for decades. It’s important to have a well-designed, well-defined, secure, and efficient network environment for your applications. Introducing new networking segments can cause additional latency between application components if proper steps are not taken to anticipate the flow of traffic and keep communications between different components efficient. Not having a well-defined or secure network can open your organization up to liabilities, such as cyberattacks, and compromise proprietary or sensitive data.

Azure provides a wealth of different network services meant to manage, direct, monitor, filter, and handle several types of traffic across many different topologies...