Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Qiming Chen

Harish Kumar Chandrappa

Abhishek Tiwari

Ganesh Srinivasan

Karthik Ananthakrishnan

Nikhil K Ravi

Swati Tiwari

Chakshu Sardana

Neelesh Kumar

Viswanath Chennuru

Varun Prakash Shrivastava

Michelle Austine Liu

Rishabh Tewari

Parag Sharma

Abhishek Shukla

Abhishek Ellore Sreenath

Pranjal Shrivastava

Sumeet Mittal

Anitha Adusumilli

A method for providing a managed networking service for a cloud computing system enables users to consume managed virtualized network functions (VNFs) at edge locations. The method includes registering a plurality of third-party vendors for the managed networking service. The plurality of third-party vendors provide a plurality of VNFs for the managed networking service. The method also includes receiving user input from a user of the cloud computing system. The user input includes a request to deploy the plurality of VNFs at an edge location. The plurality of VNFs can be provided by different third-party vendors through the managed networking service. The method also includes causing the plurality of VNFs to be deployed on an edge device that is located at the edge location. The plurality of VNFs can be represented as logical entities in a database that is utilized by the managed networking service.

Cloud-based managed networking service that enables users to consume managed virtualized network functions at edge locations

The techniques described herein enable a private connectivity solution between a virtual network of a service consumer and a virtual network of a service provider in a cloud-based platform. The techniques map a service (e.g., one or more workloads or containers) executing in the virtual network of the service provider into the virtual network of the service consumer. The mapping uses network address translation (NAT) that is performed by the cloud-based infrastructure. As a result of the techniques described herein, a public Internet Protocol (IP) address does not need to be used to establish a connection thereby alleviating privacy and/or security concerns for the virtual networks of the service provider and/or the service consumer that are hosted by the cloud-based platform.

Mapping a service into a virtual network using source network address translation

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