Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoint Integration – an ability to call a REST endpoint natively from Azure SQL Database.

The public preview of Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoint Integration is a follow-up from this year's earlier private preview.

[Click on image for larger view.] Figure 3. Private Endpoint resource selection Conclusion So, in summary, for your own networks, Private Link offers the ability to present an instance of a particular ...

Normally that traffic would traverse the internet but if you have a S2S VPN or ExpressRoute, you can configure DNS with the private address of your Azure Firewall, and it'll forward the traffic via ...