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Vishal Kalwapalli

Vishal Kalwapalli

Vishal is a Subject Matter Expert in Cloud/ DevOps. He is a certified Microsoft Azure Administrator and Microsoft certified solutions architect expert and worked on various AWS and Azure infrastructure projects. In his spare time, he enjoys reading novels and reviewing books on Goodreads.

Protect Your Cloud Workloads With Azure Firewall Service Configuration Setup

Posted on May 4, 2022 by Vishal Kalwapalli | Comments(3)

Azure Firewall is a managed service of Azure that has built-in high availability and is stateful, so it understands what packet of traffic/data to allow and what to not. It also has built-in threat intelligence, allowing us to deny traffic from/to malicious IP addresses and domains. We can also deploy an Azure firewall across two or more AZ to ensure high availability. We can also filter traffic based on fully-qualified domain names.

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Exploring Azure Service Endpoints Features And Functionalities

Posted on May 2, 2022 by Vishal Kalwapalli | Comments(0)

Azure PasS Services such as Storage accounts, Webapps, and SQL Database are public services with public endpoints, meaning traffic and connectivity are routed over the internet to these public services. But there may be instances where there is a need to have secure connectivity (over Azure backbone network) to these public endpoint services. We will discuss one of many azure services that will fulfill this need.

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Unleash the Power of Microsoft Azure File Sync

Posted on January 7, 2022 by Vishal Kalwapalli | Comments(0)

Microsoft Azure file shares is a fully managed service of Microsoft Azure built on the SMB 3.0 protocol, which solves many pain points of traditional windows file shares like maintaining the servers, increasing the size, high availability, etc. It is a file shared on the cloud, and Azure manages everything. We can connect to these shares from within Azure or from on-premises over SMB protocol, or we can have a hybrid model.