2 way traffic with Azure Private Link

Question

Hello
I get the concept of Azure Private Link. In short it gives me the option to access a azure instance through a private ip address from my own vnet.
Now lets say the azure instance with the private link wants to pull data from another azure service that is available in the same vnet and has a private ip. So the initiative of pulling data is in the azure instance. Can this azure instance use it private link for that as well?
Or does the azure private link only working one way?

Answer 1

@C.J. Vieleers ,

Short Answer: Its one way connection. From the VNET to the PaaS or PLS.

Private Link is introduced to solve the problem of VNET resource connecting to the 1st party(Azure Services) or 3rd party resources using public IP. With Private Endpoints, you can connect to the Private IP of the Private endpoint which in turn connect to the Azure service. The other way communication is not possible, in the sense Azure service cannot initiate traffic to the Private endpoints.

Regards,
Karthik Srinivas