| Point-to-Site | Site-to-Site | ExpressRoute | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Azure Supported Services | Cloud Services and Virtual Machines | Cloud Services and Virtual Machines | Services list |
| Typical Bandwidths | Typically < 100 Mbps aggregate | Typically < 100 Mbps aggregate | 50 Mbps, 100 Mbps, 200 Mbps, 500 Mbps, 1 Gbps, 2 Gbps, 5 Gbps, 10 Gbps |
| Protocols Supported | Secure Sockets Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) | IPsec | Direct connection over VLANs, NSP's VPN technologies (MPLS, VPLS,...) |
| Routing | RouteBased (dynamic) | We support PolicyBased (static routing) and RouteBased (dynamic routing VPN) | BGP |
| Connection resiliency | active-passive | active-passive | active-active |
| Typical use case | Prototyping, dev / test / lab scenarios for cloud services and virtual machines | Dev / test / lab scenarios and small scale production workloads for cloud services and virtual machines | Access to all Azure services (validated list), Enterprise-class and mission critical workloads, Backup, Big Data, Azure as a DR site |
| SLA | SLA | SLA | SLA |
| Pricing | Pricing | Pricing | Pricing |
| Technical Documentation | VPN Gateway Documentation | VPN Gateway Documentation | ExpressRoute Documentation |
| FAQ | VPN Gateway FAQ | VPN Gateway FAQ | ExpressRoute FAQ |