A service of your own, placed behind the frontend IP of a Standard Load Balancer, that consumers connect to via private endpoints. Azure PaaS services such as Azure SQL Database do not need one.
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Terms in this definition
- Azure Load Balancer
Layer-4 load balancer operating within a region, with zone redundancy on the Standard SKU; it has no WAF, doesn't terminate TLS and can't route by URL.
- CONNECT
In SQL Server, the right to open a connection to a database. Fabric's equivalent is Read permission on an item, which allows connecting to a warehouse or SQL endpoint but not querying anything in it.
- 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.
- Azure SQL Database
Platform-as-a-service database offered as a single database or in an elastic pool, sized up to 4 TB or 128 TB on Hyperscale. SQL Agent, CLR and queries across databases aren't available.