We have a reserved IP address assigned to a public facing service which runs in a Cloud Service. We understand that even with the reserved IP address there are situations that can cause our assigned IP address to change, such as moving our service to a different region.
To help combat this we are wondering if we could use an IP address we have control over within the Azure environment. In this case we can be sure that the IP address, owned by us, could be kept for as long as needed, and migrate from service to service or even region to region as needed.
I admit that this isn’t something that I personally have the capability to setup, instead I’d just like to know if this is supported with in the Azure environment, and then dig deeper with the correct networking and infrastructure folks within my organization.
Internally to our organization we have discussed a pass through proxy which accepts and then routes traffic through the Azure reserved IP address. We are wondering if that would be the necessary path we’d need to follow, or if Azure has something else that would natively handle this.