What is the SLA on a VNET (virtual network) ?

Tim Braes 21

Dear,
I couldn't locate the actual SLA of a VNET in Azure. One of the core components.

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suvasara-MSFT 10,046 Reputation points

2020-12-09T05:12:08.817+00:00

@Tim Braes , AFAIK, there is no defined SLA for Azure VNET. Azure Virtual Network is just a private IP block where all your resources can be deployed for private connectivity and secure those resources within a boundary. Virtual Network itself will never go down or experience outage, All the resources or services associated to the VNet may experience outage when a specific regional datacenter is down.

This is the reason there is no charge for using Azure VNet or data transfer within a VNet, it's free of cost. Standard charges are applicable for resources, such as Virtual Machines (VMs) and other services within VNET boundary. Hence, we don’t have any SLA for Vnet.

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Tim Braes 21 Reputation points

2020-12-09T07:25:12.56+00:00

Dear,
Thanks for this information. I believe I understand now, let me use my own words. :-) And do correct me.
So the VNET is free of charge, so there is no SLA (you can't get free money back). So I see VNET as 100% available.
But what about VNET peering? We use a hub and spoke model ; thus there is a peering cost ; should I also consider it '100% available' this peering?
I see the point that all issues will be rolled up in the components (VM, AKS, Loadbalancer, ...) using the VNET and on those components is the SLA assigned.
I need to convince my management that VNET is seen as always available (trace of that fact) ; since the weakest component determines the SLA right. Since a lot of services are VNET integrated, having no SLA is hard to defend. But if you can help me convincing them (with some link/trace) that VNET or VNET peering is not part of the equation, I'm totally fine. But do you see my point?
I appreciate your help!
Thanks,

Tim
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