Azure Private Endpoints Explained

Disabling public access on your storage account is easy — keeping clients able to reach it afterward is where private DNS bites you.

This walks through building one Azure Private Endpoint end to end: a NIC in your VNet subnet gets a private IP that maps to a single storage sub-resource (blob, file, table, or queue) through Private Link, so traffic stays on Microsoft's backbone. The example pulls a storage account's blob service onto the VNet, then disables public access entirely — but the make-or-break step is the privatelink DNS zone, where the public hostname CNAMEs into your private A record and the zone must be linked to the VNet. The big gotcha: each sub-resource needs its own endpoint and zone, and roughly 90% of connection failures are DNS issues you confirm with nslookup before touching anything else.

For engineers and DevOps folks locking down storage, key vaults, or databases that shouldn't be on the public internet.

⏱️ Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:04 Lock Down Your Storage Account
0:41 What We're Building
1:18 Step 1: Network and Subnet
1:51 Step 2: Create the Endpoint
2:29 Step 3: Private DNS Zone
3:09 Step 4: Disable Public Access
3:43 Verify It Works
4:17 Recap and Takeaway

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