Designing your SDWAN and Firewall into Azure Hub and Spoke

Designing network connectivity in public cloud can very quickly become a daunting task. Of course, public cloud providers do offer native networking services, and with those it is fairly easy. This should always be your primary route (pun intended). For example, in the case of Azure, using Virtual WAN and its native integration with both … Continue reading Designing your SDWAN and Firewall into Azure Hub and Spoke

Where do I put my SDWAN?

You might have come across a post from my good friend Adam on SDWAN Design options in Azure, where he details seven design alternatives when incorporating SDWAN to an Azure network. While I was reading Adam’s great summary, I was wondering whether I could summarize his design options and recommendations using the 3-tier cloud netowrk … Continue reading Where do I put my SDWAN?

Virtual WAN: secure hubs in multiple regions

This article was posted in 2020. In the meantime, Azure Virtual WAN Routing Intent has been released with the functionality of securing hub-to-hub traffic. See the official documentation page here: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-wan/how-to-routing-policies. You probably know Azure Virtual WAN, an Azure technology that abstracts hybrid networking by providing Microsoft-managed Virtual Hubs that use the Microsoft backbone to … Continue reading Virtual WAN: secure hubs in multiple regions