In this demonstration, I provide the steps for deploying a multi-vpc architecture on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. This architecture will consist of the resources that are illustrated in the topology diagram below: Table of Contents Create three (3) Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) Create two (2) private subnets within each…

In this project, I demonstrate the steps for deploying a secured static website to AWS. We will utilize Amazon S3 bucket storage service to host our website file and Amazon Route 53 will be used to acquire a new custom domain name and for management of DNS. …

As businesses continue to migrate their operations to the cloud, it’s important to ensure that their assets and data are secure. One way to do this is by implementing a secured virtual hub in Microsoft Azure! Azure Virtual WAN is a tool provided by Microsoft that allows you to build…

The Azure Firewall is a fully managed cloud-native service that provides network security to protect your Azure virtual network resources. The service offers built-in high availability, unrestricted scalability, threat intelligence-based filtering, logging and monitoring, and many more features and capabilities. Azure Firewall offers Layers 3–7 connectivity policies and is offered…

Azure Application Gateway is a layer 7 web traffic (HTTP, HTTPS, WebSocket, and HTTP/2) load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications and it offers many capabilities for providing secure, scalable, and highly available websites. App Gateway distributes inbound application traffic to its backend pools, which…

Inbound NAT rules is an optional and configurable component for use with the Azure Public load balancer when using it to distribute inbound traffic to a backend pool of compute resources on our virtual networks. We can configure inbound NAT rules that will be used to forward inbound traffic received…

The Azure Load Balancer is one of four load-balancing solution options offered by Microsoft Azure for distributing inbound network traffic evenly across a group of backend compute resources within our virtual networks. The backend pool can consist of virtual machines or virtual machine scale sets of the same type. The…

When we create a new virtual network (VNet) on Azure, it will route traffic between all subnets within that VNet, by default, thanks to System Routes that it creates and assigns to the route table for each of these subnets within the virtual network. In fact, there are additional optional…

In a previous article, I discussed how the Azure VPN Gateway could be utilized for providing remote workers with connectivity to Azure Virtual Networks and resources over an Internet connection through the creation of a Point-to-Site (P2S) VPN connection. However, an Azure VPN gateway also provides the option to use…