Key Benefits of Azure Virtual Network Manager
Enhanced Network Security
- Dynamic: NSG provides fine-grained control to allow or deny inbound [(ingress)] and outbound [(egress)] traffic via network interfaces. This granular control minimizes the risk of data breaches and unauthorized access.
- Azure Virtual Network Manager better supports the default security profiles: Including Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) and Azure Firewall which adds an extra barrier to entry for bad actors trying to penetrate your network infrastructure.
Simplified Network Management
- Single Sign On: Azure Virtual Network Manager is the single interface to all VNets, subnets and network related resources that provides centralized management of VNets, subnets and associated networking resources, which helps in centrally managing large-scale networks.
- Automated Management Tasks: The tool enables automation of mundane tasks using Azure Automation and Azure Resource Manager templates, reducing the need for huge resources to manage the network.
Scalability and Flexibility
- Cloud agnostic: The Azure Virtual Network Manager is easily scalable to support a growing number of workloads and apps.
- Flexible Network Configurations: This allows users to Create and Manage VNets, Subnets and Peering Relationships with ease resulting in very Flexible Network Topologies to accommodate different business requirements.
Improved Performance
- Better Traffic Routing: It improves the routing of traffic with and among VNets, providing higher network performance with lesser latencies.
- High-Speed Connectivity: The use of VNet peering and ExpressRoute provide high-speed, low-latency connections which in turn improve the performance of cloud applications.
What is Azure Virtual Network Manager
If you think about it, in the big picture of cloud computing, network management is a critical functionality for proper operation and communication signaling across disparate nodes. Of course, Microsoft Azure offers you quite a bit more than just this and that is what we are going to explore shortly but again, the topic of Azure Virtual Network Manager would always be one of the basic tool for managing virtual networks. In this post, I will go through everything you should know about Azure Virtual Network Manager. Including what it is, the features and benefits, typical use cases and best practices to ensure that you use this tool in a manner that befits your workloads.