🛡️ Cloud Networking Level 3: The Data Sovereignty Plan

In our previous posts, we built a secure bridge (VPN) and taught our servers to speak to each other by name (Private DNS). Today, we tackle the final challenge: How do we access a Storage Account without ever touching the public internet? Enter Azure Private Link . The Architecture: Total Isolation By default, Azure Storage is a public service with a public endpoint. Even with a VPN, your traffic usually "hairpins" out to the internet to reach your blobs. In Level 3 , we create a Private Endpoint . This gives our Storage Account a local IP address inside our VNet. 🛠️ The Implementation We will disable all public access to our Storage Account and create a "Private Link" into our branch network. # 1. Create Storage (Public Access: Disabled) $storage = New-AzStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName $rgName -Name $storageName ` -Location $location -SkuName Standard_LRS -Kind StorageV2 ` -PublicNetworkAccess Disabled # 2. Deploy Private Endpoint into VNet-B $vnet2 = Get-AzVirtualNetwork -Name "bra