Cloud anywhere:
Azure for hybrid and multicloud environments
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Private Link
Azure Private Link enables you to access Azure PaaS (for example, Azure Storage, Azure Cosmos DB,
and SQL Database) and Azure-hosted customer or partner services over a private endpoint in your
virtual network. Traffic between your virtual network and the service traverses over the Microsoft
backbone network, eliminating exposure from the public internet.
With Private Link, your company can:
• privately access services on the Azure platform,
• access services running in Azure from on-premises over
ExpressRoute private peering or VPN tunnels,
• gain protection against data exfiltration by mapping resources to
a specific instance of the customer's PaaS resource,
• connect privately to services running in other regions, and
• extend to your own services by placing your service behind a load
balancer to enable Private Link.
