Azure Virtual Networks
A virtual network is very similar to the traditional network that you would operate and stand up in your own organization’s data center. Similar to how networking allows your organization’s assets and resources to communicate with each other, Azure’s Virtual Network service allows you to build a network for your Azure resources and services to communicate with each other, the public internet, or any of an organization’s on-premise networks and resources.
Similar to AWS’s VPC, when you create a virtual machine resource in Azure, you can create an Azure Virtual Network or use an existing one (if it has been created already). Your virtual network is just like any other entity managed by Azure (known as an Azure Resource), such as a virtual machine, data store, database, or any other service we had previously discussed in Chapter 3.
For demonstration purposes and the purpose of this section, we have a created virtual network...
