Azure Bastion
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Azure Bastion is a managed PaaS service from Microsoft that provides secure, seamless RDP and SSH connectivity to virtual machines directly through the Azure portal without exposing them to the public internet.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Azure Bastion canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11653910 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Azure Bastion Context triple: [Azure portal, supportsService, Azure Bastion]
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A.
Azure Virtual Network
Azure Virtual Network is a core Azure networking service that enables secure, isolated, and configurable private networks in the cloud for running and connecting Azure resources.
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B.
Azure Security Center
Azure Security Center is a cloud security management and threat protection service that helps monitor, harden, and defend workloads running in Microsoft Azure and hybrid environments.
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C.
Azure portal
Azure portal is Microsoft's unified, web-based management interface for configuring, monitoring, and administering Azure cloud services and resources.
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D.
Azure Cloud Shell
Azure Cloud Shell is a browser-based, authenticated shell environment in the Azure portal that lets users manage Azure resources using tools like PowerShell and Bash without local installation.
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E.
Azure Resource Manager
Azure Resource Manager is the deployment and management service for Microsoft Azure that provides a consistent way to create, update, and manage cloud resources through templates, APIs, and role-based access control.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Azure Bastion Target entity description: Azure Bastion is a managed PaaS service from Microsoft that provides secure, seamless RDP and SSH connectivity to virtual machines directly through the Azure portal without exposing them to the public internet.
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A.
Azure Virtual Network
Azure Virtual Network is a core Azure networking service that enables secure, isolated, and configurable private networks in the cloud for running and connecting Azure resources.
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B.
Azure Security Center
Azure Security Center is a cloud security management and threat protection service that helps monitor, harden, and defend workloads running in Microsoft Azure and hybrid environments.
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C.
Azure portal
Azure portal is Microsoft's unified, web-based management interface for configuring, monitoring, and administering Azure cloud services and resources.
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D.
Azure Cloud Shell
Azure Cloud Shell is a browser-based, authenticated shell environment in the Azure portal that lets users manage Azure resources using tools like PowerShell and Bash without local installation.
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E.
Azure Resource Manager
Azure Resource Manager is the deployment and management service for Microsoft Azure that provides a consistent way to create, update, and manage cloud resources through templates, APIs, and role-based access control.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Platform as a Service
ⓘ
managed service ⓘ network security service ⓘ |
| accessMethod | Azure portal ⓘ |
| accessScope |
virtual machines in peered virtual networks
ⓘ
virtual machines in the same virtual network ⓘ |
| avoids | public IP exposure on virtual machines ⓘ |
| billingModel |
data transfer charges
ⓘ
per-hour usage ⓘ |
| deploymentModel | per virtual network ⓘ |
| designedFor | secure remote access to Azure virtual machines ⓘ |
| developer | Microsoft ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
IP-based connection to targets
ⓘ
Kerberos authentication for Windows VMs ⓘ file copy over RDP and SSH ⓘ native client support via Bastion tunnel ⓘ shareable links for sessions ⓘ |
| hasTier |
Basic
ⓘ
Standard ⓘ |
| integratesWith |
Azure Firewall
ⓘ
Azure Network Security Groups ⓘ
linked to:
Azure Network Security Group
Azure Private Link ⓘ Azure Virtual Network ⓘ |
| management | fully managed by Microsoft ⓘ |
| networkPlacement | virtual network ⓘ |
| partOf |
Microsoft Azure
ⓘ
linked to:
Azure
|
| provides |
RDP connectivity to virtual machines
ⓘ
SSH connectivity to virtual machines ⓘ |
| regionAvailability | multiple Azure regions worldwide ⓘ |
| requires |
public IP address for Bastion host
ⓘ
subnet named AzureBastionSubnet ⓘ |
| securityBenefit |
eliminates need to open RDP ports to internet
ⓘ
eliminates need to open SSH ports to internet ⓘ reduces attack surface of virtual machines ⓘ |
| securityFeature |
browser-based session over SSL
ⓘ
integration with Azure role-based access control ⓘ no inbound public connectivity to virtual machines ⓘ support for Azure AD-based access control via portal ⓘ |
| supports |
Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts
ⓘ
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets ⓘ Azure Virtual Machines ⓘ
linked to:
Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines
Linux virtual machines ⓘ Windows virtual machines ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol |
RDP
ⓘ
SSH ⓘ TLS ⓘ |
| useCase |
jump host replacement
ⓘ
secure administration of production workloads ⓘ |
| uses | HTML5-based web client ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Azure Bastion Description of subject: Azure Bastion is a managed PaaS service from Microsoft that provides secure, seamless RDP and SSH connectivity to virtual machines directly through the Azure portal without exposing them to the public internet.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.