Your company needs to ensure that an Azure virtual machine can connect to Azure SQL databases without exposing the databases to the internet. What should you use?

The correct answer is C. Azure Private link. Azure Private Link enables you to access Azure PaaS Services (for example, Azure Storage and SQL Database) and Azure hosted customer-owned/partner services over a private endpoint in your virtual network. Traffic between your virtual network and the service travels the…

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Question

Your company needs to ensure that an Azure virtual machine can connect to Azure SQL databases without exposing the databases to the internet. What should you use?

Options

AAzure DNS
BAzure Application Gateway
CAzure Private link
DAzure Traffic Manager

How the community answered

(35 responses)

A
6% (2)
B
9% (3)
C
83% (29)
D
3% (1)

Explanation

Azure Private Link enables you to access Azure PaaS Services (for example, Azure Storage and SQL Database) and Azure hosted customer-owned/partner services over a private endpoint in your virtual network. Traffic between your virtual network and the service travels the Microsoft backbone network. Exposing your service to the public internet is no longer necessary https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-support-blog/azure-sql-db-private-link- private-endpoint-connectivity/ba-p/1235573

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#Azure Private Link#private endpoint#network security#Azure SQL connectivity

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