An unexpected friendship: subnet peering and advertised gateway prefixes

You might have read my previous blogs about subnet peering, like this introduction to subnet peering when it was launched and the effect of subnet peering on ExpressRoute routing a bit later. Subnet peering is a technique used in today a number of designs, one of them being the Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) topology in SAP RISE. … Continue reading An unexpected friendship: subnet peering and advertised gateway prefixes

The square design with hub-and-spoke

This is a continuation from my previous post Azure Route Server route maps: more than a feature, where I discussed some of the patterns not supported by route maps in Azure Route Server (ARS), such as VNet-to-VNet VPN connections and BGP peers in another hub (although these ones might be addressed by the time route … Continue reading The square design with hub-and-spoke

Azure Route Server route maps: more than a feature

If you have been following the Azure Networking space lately, you will probably have noticed the global preview of a new feature: route maps for Azure Route Server. Others have already blogged about this; for example, make sure to read Simon Painter’s blog post about it here. I finally had some time to try it, … Continue reading Azure Route Server route maps: more than a feature

Many-regions networking with Azure Route Server

The AI era has brought many good things: from endless cat videos to applications vibe-coded during the lunch break, but there is also something else they have brought to the table: capacity issues in public clouds. If you are a user of public cloud, you have probably experienced this problem: the virtual machine size you … Continue reading Many-regions networking with Azure Route Server