I’m glad that you asked! I try to be cost-conscious, and while Azure Bastion Host is relatively cheap it’s still a great practice to check prices and estimate costs in advance. The difference to just deploying your own VM for this purpose is that Azure Bastion Host is cheaper, effectively more secure and simpler to maintain. In practice, you’ll deploy an instance of Azure Bastion Host, and it acts as a virtualized jump-server that allows opening remote connections to your servers within the same Virtual Network (VNET). ![]() It’s a PaaS-solution for a jump-server (also known as a jump-box) to access your virtual machines over Remote Desktop (RDP) and Secure SHell (SSH). The preview for Azure Bastion Host was announced 18th of June. Let’s see what it is, and how to set up Azure Bastion Host! What is Azure Bastion Host? I was delighted to learn this Summer that Microsoft released a preview of Azure Bastion Host, which more or less resolves the issues I had back in February for building a remote access solution for my virtual machines. ![]() It’s one of my more popular posts in this blog, and I guess it’s helpful for many because it travels through the options and provides justification for the choices.Īs that’s often one of the challenges when working with Azure and architectures – there is plenty of choices, and it might be burdensome and frustrating to understand the differences and best options on each. I wrote about my experiences and challenges when building a secure remote access solution for Azure-based virtual machines back in February 2019. Building a secure remote access solution using Azure Bastion Host
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