Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure

Leveraging on-premises resources

Now, in some application development scenarios, there may be a need to reach back into an organizations network to get data.  There are many ways to accomplish this, and each has its merits, such as exposing services, writing to queues (relaying), VPNs, or Azure Express Route.  Each choice has it pros and cons, but I recommend using a secure VPN/Express Route.  This, however, has one BIG stipulation: you need to use dynamic routing. If you use static routing, this is not supported.  VPN solutions come with a premium cost but are worth it in my eyes, as they allow Azure resources to interact with on-premise resources, like the data on the internal network.  But, you should really understand your needs before ...