9. News
• Azure Backup now integrated into VM create experience
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/backup-create-vm-integration/
• Introducing Backup for Azure File Shares
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-backup-for-azure-file-shares/
• Azure Cloud Shell
• https://shell.azure.com
• Hybrid Printing for Azure AD is here-
• https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/nzedu/2018/02/07/hybrid-cloud-printing-via-azuread-is-
here/
• Drop in Azure support costs -
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-standard-support-now-offers-the-highest-value-
support-for-production-workloads-amongst-major-cloud-providers/
11. IPv4 and IPv6 Support
Support for multiple network interfaces for routing and
firewalls
Private and/or Public IP addresses (static or dynamic)
Network Security Groups for traffic isolation
Automatic assignment of DNS servers from virtual
network or from Azure DNS
Accelerated Networking
MAC Persistence
13. Secure site-to-site
VPN connectivity
• Connect to Azure compute
from on-premises or another
Azure region
Secure point-to-site
connectivity
• POC Efforts
• Small scale deployments
• Connect from anywhere
ExpressRoute private
connectivity
• Private connectivity from your
on-premises data center to
Azure virtual networks and
PaaS Services
VNet Peering
within region
• In-region VNet-to-VNet connectivity
• Direct VM-to-VM connectivity
• Peer VNets for routing and transit
17. Take aways
• Azure networking is like on premises network with a few
differences
• Assign setting to the network NOT inside the machines
within
• All networking can be deployed and managed by software
• Can easily connected Azure networks together and to on
premises environments.
• Basic Azure networking functions doesn’t cost anything