In Windows Azure, is it possible to have a load balanced endpoint that's only accessible by traffic from a connected virtual network? -

I have a cloud service that is connected to a LAN via a virtual network. I have a web role that machines on the LAN will tell the cloud service as if they are going to kill for tasks that need to be refreshed. It is possible and the end point is that the load is balanced, but it is only traffic through the virtual network Accepts

OK ... there are some things to think about you.

You can set your own load balancer in a different role, which then balances the load. You might want two examples to deal with high availability, and if there was a stateful / sticky-session data that you would need to sync between your two load balancers or ...

Now: if Your code needs to keep the weight-balance in the virtual machine instead of the web-worker's role, so you can take advantage of the new IP level endpoint ACL feature. With this feature introduced in TechEd, Do not make the point that allows on / block traffic based on source IP address. So you could have a load balanced timeframe balance traffic between some virtual machines, and then you can access your LAN machines, and even add your existing cloud service (web / worker) VIP So that your web and worker can access the roll instance service, all through the endpoint without going through all the VPNs. In this way, you can take advantage of Azure's built-in load balancer, as well as provide secure access to your app's services.

You can see more details of Endpoint ACL.