Private Endpoint Security is Here: Another Step Forward for Astra DB Security

DataStax Astra DB's adoption is growing rapidly due to its speed, ease of use, autoscaling, and consumption-based pricing. To enhance security for users, private endpoint on AWS, GCP, and Azure has been made generally available. Private endpoint enables secure connections between applications or microservices in a virtual private cloud (VPC) and Astra DB. This feature helps meet the security and governance requirements of enterprises by ensuring all traffic remains within the cloud provider's private network backbone. Users can associate private endpoints with security groups to enforce governance on network traffic through security group rules. Private endpoint is scalable, easier to configure than VPC peering, and supports AWS PrivateLink, Google Private Service Connect, and Azure Private Link. It can be configured using the Astra DB DevOps API or soon via the Astra UI or console.