PaaS security

Azure provides numerous PaaS services, each with its own security features. In general, PaaS services can be accessed using credentials, certificates, and tokens. PaaS services allow the generation of short-lived security access tokens. Client applications can send these security access tokens to represent trusted users. In this section, we will cover some of the most important PaaS services that are used in almost every solution.

Azure Private Link

Azure Private Link provides access to Azure PaaS services as well as Azure-hosted customer-owned/partner-shared services over a private endpoint in your virtual network. While using Azure Private Link, we don't have to expose our services to the public internet, and all traffic between our service and the virtual network goes via Microsoft's backbone network.

Azure Private Endpoint is the network interface that helps to privately and securely connect to a service that is powered by Azure Private Link. Since...