What is Azure Bastion Service?

Anvesh
SilentTech
Published in
2 min readFeb 19, 2024

It is a Service that sits before your VM and scans all your connections. It enables a seamless connection to your VM without use of RDP and SSH. You can access your VM right from the Azure Portal.

When you connect via Azure Bastion, your virtual machines don’t need a public IP address, agent, or special client software.

Using Azure Bastion protects your virtual machines from exposing RDP/SSH ports to the outside world, while still providing secure access using RDP/SSH.

Azure Bastion is a fully managed platform PaaS service from Azure that is hardened internally to provide you secure RDP/SSH connectivity.

Your VMs are protected against port scanning by rogue and malicious users because you don’t need to expose the VMs to the internet.

Azure Bastion sits at the perimeter of your virtual network, so you don’t need to worry about hardening each of the VMs in your virtual network.

Azure Bastion offers multiple SKU tiers. Developer, Basic and Standard.

Azure Bastion is deployed to a virtual network and supports virtual network peering. Specifically, Azure Bastion manages RDP/SSH connectivity to VMs created in the local or peered virtual networks.

Connect VM from Bastion Service follow Link

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