As always, be wary deploying for production, there is no SLA yet. There are a couple of things to note as the service is in preview.
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We are also looking to add support for native RDP/SSH clients so that you can use your favorite client applications to securely connect to your Azure Virtual Machines using Azure Bastion, while at the same time enhance the auditing experience for RDP sessions with full session video recording. The future brings Azure Active Directory integration, adding seamless single-sign-on capabilities using Azure Active Directory identities and Azure Multi-Factor Authentication, and effectively extending two-factor authentication to your RDP/SSH connections. It’s continuously hardened by automatically patching and keeping up to date against known vulnerabilities.Īnd they list the following as on the roadmap for future release: Hardening in one place to protect against zero-day exploits: Azure Bastion is a managed service maintained by Microsoft.Increased protection against port scanning: The limited exposure of virtual machines to the public Internet will help protect against threats, such as external port scanning.Simplified secure rules management: Simple one-time configuration of Network Security Groups (NSGs) to allow RDP/SSH from only Azure Bastion.No public IP required on Azure Virtual Machines: Azure Bastion opens the RDP/SSH connection to your Azure virtual machine using a private IP, limiting exposure of your infrastructure to the public Internet.This allows easy and securely traversal of corporate firewalls.
Remote session over SSL and firewall traversal for RDP/SSH: HTML5 based web clients are automatically streamed to your local device providing the RDP/SSH session over SSL on port 443.RDP and SSH from the Azure portal: Initiate RDP and SSH sessions directly in the Azure portal with a single-click seamless experience.
Microsoft list the following as key features available right now as part of the preview: Azure BastionĪzure Bastion is provisioned directly into a virtual network, which allows bastion host and integrated connectivity to all virtual machines within that vnet using RDP/SSH directly from and through your browser via the Azure Portal. Which allows managed, seamless access to VMs in your private network via RDP and SSH over SSL. Thankfully, Microsoft have introduced a new PaaS based service – Azure Bastion. However, management and administration of these hosts can be a complex and time consuming task. Little tip from me, please don’t do this! The alternative is to increase your perimeter exposure by allowing public access to your private resources directly. As this connectivity function is so widely used, bastions are quite common in the majority of environments.
As it’s exposed to potential attack, bastion hosts must be designed to minimize risk of penetration. Microsoft released an introduction video to Azure Bastion a couple of days ago and today a new post has gone live giving us all the details of Azure Bastion in its preview state.įirst up, what is a Bastion? Often referred to as a jumpbox, jumphost or bastion host, it’s a server which provides access to a private network from an external network, most commonly the Internet.
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