Microsoft peering

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Terms in this definition

• Geographic

  A Traffic Manager routing method that picks the endpoint according to where the user is located geographically.

• Domain

  A way of grouping workspaces by area of the business, in support of a data mesh approach. Items take on their workspace's domain, letting you filter the OneLake catalog by it, and certain tenant settings can be passed to domain admins; domains have no effect on access permissions.

• ExpressRoute

  A dedicated private link between on-premises networks and Azure, using Microsoft peering or private peering.

• PaaS

  Platform as a service, managed offerings such as Azure SQL Database and App Service in which the provider looks after the infrastructure and operating system.

• Microsoft 365

  Formerly Office 365, Microsoft's software-as-a-service productivity suite. A Microsoft Entra tenant provides its identity, and its data is not governed by Azure RBAC.

• Route filter

  Resource applied to ExpressRoute Microsoft peering that permits selected BGP community values, so prefixes are advertised only for the services you choose.

Related terms

• Azure public peering

  Older ExpressRoute peering for reaching Azure's public endpoints; it is deprecated for new circuits, with Microsoft peering in its place.

• Default route

  The 0.0.0.0/0 route matching any destination. Advertised by on-premises routers through BGP on ExpressRoute private peering (Microsoft peering won't do), it sends internet traffic from connected VNets back on-premises.

• DMZ

  A firewalled buffer network on premises that sits between the outside world and the core network. Microsoft Learn suggests ending ExpressRoute Microsoft peering there, while private peering lands on the core.