azure maps enable with azure firewall for security

Question

How i can enable firewall with azure map services

Answer 1

I don't believe there is any options for this directly in the Azure Maps resource. Note that when you create an Azure Maps resource it doesn't deploy the Azure Maps platform to your account, it simply creates an account that can access the Azure Maps platform hosted by Microsoft.

From a security standpoint, here are the main options for Azure Maps:

1. Two main ways to authenticate access to the Azure Maps services;

• shared keys (primary/secondary key) - this is only recommended for development and not production as it is not secure. This method only exists due to every other map platform out there using this for auth. Not offering this basic auth option would have scared a lot of developers away.
• Managed identities (Microsoft Entra ID/Azure Active Directory) - Support RBAC and has many features, such as the ability to limit which Azure Maps services a user can access. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-maps/how-to-manage-authentication

2. If you call the Azure Maps services from another Azure hosted service (e.g. Azure function), the data request flows through the Azure backbone (direct azure to azure request) and doesn't go out to the public internet.