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Understanding private endpoints

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Understanding private endpoints

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- [Instructor] Sometimes you might need or want to use a service called Private Endpoint to connect to services in Azure. They're different to a similar technology called Service Endpoint, and it's important to understand the differences. While service endpoints secure traffic by keeping it within the Azure backbone network, private endpoints take it a step further by using private IP addresses from your VNet, ensuring that all traffic stays entirely within your private address space. Private endpoints in Azure is a network interface that connects you privately and securely to a service powered by Azure Private Link, such as storage counts via a private IP address within your virtual network. For instance, when a web app connects to a storage account using a private endpoint, the connection's established over a private IP address ensuring the traffic remains within the Azure virtual network and does not traverse the public internet. This setup enhances security by limiting exposure to…

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