Microsoft on Tuesday announced a preview of Azure Private Link, an option for keeping Azure service connections off the public Internet.

Image source Since Azure Private Link is currently in preview, a limited number of regions and services are currently supported, including Azure SQL Database and Azure Storage.

Paul Schnackenburg details your current options for connecting workloads on-premises and in Azure and where each technology fits, giving you the right context for looking at Private Link, a recently ...

Both MySQL and PostgreSQL are now generally available on the Azure Database service, Microsoft announced recently.

During the opening day of the Build 2017, Microsoft has announced two new additions to its Azure SQL service with MySQL and PostgreSQL, and has also launched a new NoSQL database called Cosmos DB.

Normally that traffic would traverse the internet but if you have a S2S VPN or ExpressRoute, you can configure DNS with the private address of your Azure Firewall, and it'll forward the traffic via ...