Microsoft Azure Fundamentals AZ-900 Practice Question

An Azure private endpoint provides a network interface with a private IP address from your virtual network. This brings the service directly into your virtual network, ensuring traffic flows over the private Microsoft backbone instead of the public internet. This is its primary security benefit. Other security measures are still necessary as part of a defense-in-depth strategy. For instance, private endpoints do not inherently encrypt data at rest; this is a separate service feature. They also do not automatically apply Network Security Groups (NSGs), although NSGs can be used on the endpoint's subnet for further filtering. Finally, private endpoints operate at the network layer and are not a replacement for identity and access management controls.