Microsoft recently announced their Azure Relay Hybrid Connections service has reached General Availability. The Azure Relay Hybrid Connections service, which is WebSocket-based, complements the existing Azure Service Bus Relay offering which is now being referred to as WCF Relays.
Microsoft recently announced their Azure Relay Hybrid Connections service has reached General Availability. The Azure Relay Hybrid Connections service, which is WebSocket-based, complements the existing Azure Service Bus Relay offering which is now being referred to as WCF Relays. The WCF Relay is functionally similar, to Hybrid Connections, but continues to have a dependency on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). InfoQ previously covered the public preview Hybrid Connections announcement back in November 2016 which included an interview with Clemens Vasters from Microsoft.
A core capability of Azure Relay is to enable hybrid connectivity for customers. Microsoft positions the service as a way to:
Enable you to securely expose services that reside within a corporate enterprise network to the public cloud, without having to open a firewall connection, or require intrusive changes to a corporate network infrastructure.
