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Test like a champ with Azure Connection Monitor

by erjosito

If you work in Azure, you probably know about Connection Monitor, a tool that generates synthetic traffic to test connectivity and measure response times. You configure sources (Virtual Machines) to generate traffic that can be addressed to destinations such as other Virtual Machines or any external endpoint outside of Azure. Alerts can be automatically generated … Continue reading Test like a champ with Azure Connection Monitor

Virtual WAN: secure hubs in multiple regions

by erjosito

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

Connect two Virtual WANs to each other over VPN

by erjosito

You might know what Azure Virtual WAN is: in essence it is a network connectivity model in Azure where you can attach your Virtual Networks, your VPN branches, your ExpressRoute sites and your remote users connecting over VPN to it, and everybody can talk to each other. The main component of Azure Virtual WAN is … Continue reading Connect two Virtual WANs to each other over VPN