Azure Bastion is available for free for developers! Costs for small organizations and homelabs have been a Bastion and thus Security challenge in the past.
This has been fixed and see below for the network design and learn about region availability and compare the SKU. I am using it now for my Windows Server 2025.
Check for more details here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bastion/quickstart-host-portal?tabs=developer
