A site-to-site (S2S) VPN is designed to create secure connections between a location, such as an office for instance, and Azure over the internet. You can then connect from every server or computer from that location using the same VPN connection. It requires a compatible VPN device or Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) and a public IP address for your VPN device. The RRAS can be deployed on a Windows server by activating the remote access server role.
The S2S VPN gateway creates a connection over a IPsec/IKE (IKEv1 or IKEv2) VPN tunnel. Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) is an open standard for securing connections over the internet and Internet Key Exchange (IKE) is a key management protocol standard used in conjunction ...
