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Introduction to networking in Azure

Introduction to networking in Azure

- [Instructor] Understanding how networking works in Azure is a key skill and generally gets quite a bit of attention on the exam. But to understand networking in Azure, we need to understand networking in a more general term. And so we'll cover some of the basics in this lesson and then move onto how this works within Azure. So all solution components need to be able to communicate effectively and safely, and there are essentially two types of network in Azure, private VNET, or the Azure Backbone. The Azure Backbone is a fully managed service and is generally used when non-VNET connect services communicate with each other. So, for example, when storage accounts replicate data, some services can either be integrated with or built on top of an Azure virtual network or VNET. Virtual machines are the most common example of this, and to build virtual machine, you have to connect it to a VNET. Other services can also be optional, integrated with VNET in different ways. For example, VMs can…

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