Load balancer handling internet-facing traffic at Layer 4 through a public frontend IP. With the Standard SKU, its public IPs must be Standard SKU too.
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Terms in this definition
- ELT
Extract, load, transform: raw data lands in the target system first and is transformed there. See ETL for the opposite order.
- L4
In the OSI model, layer 4 is where TCP and UDP ports live, also called the transport layer. Network rules in Azure Firewall, and the mitigations in DDoS Protection, both act at layers 3 and 4.
- Standard deployment type
A Foundry deployment type billed per token that keeps processing of prompts and responses inside the Azure geography of the resource, meeting data residency needs at lower volumes.
- SKU
The size or tier of a service, for example a VM size or the Premium tier of ACR.