Last Update: Sep 04, 2024 | Published: Jun 19, 2019
The Internet will go down as one of humanity’s best creations as a tool to distribute information at a wide scale in real time. While the platform has many benefits, not everyone wants to connect critical infrastructure component to it as there are also significant risks in exposing your components to the rest of the world.
Microsoft announced a new Azure service this week called Bastion which makes it significantly easier to securely and remotely connect to your non-connected VMs. The service is a new and managed PaaS offering that provides seamless RDP and SSH connectivity to your virtual machines over the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
The key here is that this connection can be made without exposing your IPs to the public Internet and instead, Azure Bastion provisions directly into your Azure Virtual Network; effectively securing the connection and keeping it private from outside eyes. This complex connection can be configured in two clicks, according to Microsoft, and mitigates the need to configure and manage network security policies.
Even though this is a preview, here’s a list of the key features included in this release:
On the road ahead, Microsoft will be adding more features including Azure Active Directory support, single-sign-on capabilities, and multi-factor authentication integration. Further, they are looking into enabling native support for third-party RDP/SSH clients as well.
The preview of this service is now available and you can try it out with your tenants here.
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