Private connectivity using Azure Private Link
Note
Azure Private Link is supported only on Striim Cloud on Azure (Enterprise and Mission Critical). Your Striim Cloud bill can increase when you enable Azure Private Link as a result of increased compute and data transfer costs. For details, contact your Striim account representative.
Azure Private Link is an Azure networking service that lets you access services (sources and targets) privately over the Microsoft backbone—without traversing the public internet. In Striim Cloud on Azure (Enterprise/Mission-Critical tiers), private connectivity is supported in two ways:
Private endpoints : Connect Striim to Azure-managed services (e.g., Storage, SQL, Event Hubs) using Private Endpoints in your VNet.
Private Link Service: For self-managed services, that is on-premise services, or services on Azure VMs, or in other clouds, publish a Private Link Service behind a Standard Internal Load Balancer (and, if needed, a forwarding VM) so Striim can reach those services privately.
Proceed to the sections below for step-by-step setup by service type:
Connecting Striim Cloud on Azure to self-managed data services
Connecting Striim Cloud on Azure to data services behind Striim Forwarding Agent: The Striim Forwarding Agent is a Striim-provided component that pushes data to Striim Cloud (instead of Striim pulling from your source). This reduces inbound exposure in your network and can be paired with Private Link for private egress to Striim.
Automation
Striim provides a Terraform automation to set up private connectivity for on-premises and cross-cloud databases through your Azure tenant.
The module provisions the required Azure infrastructure:
A Virtual Machine (VM) with port-forwarding rules,
A Standard Internal Load Balancer (ILB) with health probe and NAT/load-balancing rules,
An Azure Private Link service attached to the ILB.
See Automating the Azure Private Link integrationfor the step-by-step procedure.
For an introduction to Azure private endpoints and Azure Private link, see: