Intro

The Azure Relay service enables you to securely expose services that run in your corporate network to the public cloud. You can do so without opening a port on your firewall, or making intrusive changes to your corporate network infrastructure.

Documentation

• What is Azure Relay?

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Tips and Tidbits

• Azure Relay differs from network-level integration technologies such as VPN.

  • An Azure relay can be scoped to a single application endpoint on a single machine.

  • The VPN technology is far more intrusive, as it relies on altering the network environment.

Azure Relay has two features:

• Hybrid Connections - Uses the open standard web sockets enabling multi-platform scenarios.

• WCF Relays - Uses Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to enable remote procedure calls. WCF Relay is the legacy relay offering that many customers already use with their WCF programming models.