NETWORKING

Connect cloud and on premise infrastructure and services to provide your customers and users with the best possible experience.

Support your hybrid or all in cloud strategy using networking services built on one of the largest fibre network backbones and get the most from your Azure or open source solutions and workloads with extremely reliable performance and secure connectively.

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Azure allows you to rely on a global network to

Build your network in the cloud to reach your customers, on premise users and resources on a global scale

Seamlessly deploy your advanced networking infrastructure using a highly available global Azure DNS with your Azure Virtual Network resources 

Optimise applications across Azure Availability Zones and multiple regions with Azure Load Balancer

Build scalable, secure and highly available web front ends in Azure with Azure Application Gateway

Accelerate performance and availability of your content to customers worldwide with Azure Content Delivery Network

Secure your applications and infrastructure

Provide a secure environment for your data with more compliance certification offerings than any other cloud service provider

Limit traffic to resources and applications in your virtual network with network security groups

Configure network security as an extension of your application’s structure and replicate your security policy with application security groups

Protect your applications from web vulnerabilities and exploits with web application firewall

Extend basic threat and digital denial of service protection with Azure DDoS Protection, offering resource level protection, logging, alerting and      

telemetry to further protect your virtual network from attacks

Intelligently monitor your resources

Create a monitoring strategy to determine the effectiveness of your applications and resources

Gain insight into the performance of all your applications, services and resources using integrated tools and services in Azure, including Network  

Performance Monitor which is part of the Azure Log Analytics suite

Monitor end to end connectivity and performance between your branch offices and Azure using Network Performance Monitor for Azure   

ExpressRoute

Track the performance, security and health of your infrastructure with the tools available in Azure Monitor

Quickly diagnose problems and mitigate issues in your network with packet capturing, flow log analysis and alerting in Azure Network Watcher

Make reliable, private connections

Add connectivity to your cloud resources, making Azure a natural extension of your existing network

Create a private and fast network connection to Azure with Azure ExpressRoute and take advantage of a global network owned and operated by    

Microsoft

Connect two Azure virtual networks anywhere without the overhead of using gateways to broker the connection with virtual network peering

Securely and privately access your Azure resources with built-in virtual private network capabilities in Azure Virtual Network

You’ll find point to site functionality and site to site options for region to region or connectivity to your own datacentre with multiple bandwidth     

options and support from multiple leading appliance vendors