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PerhapsCloud
Feb 19, 2021Copper Contributor
Application Security Group
We can associate a VM/NIC with an application security group (ASG) easily either through GUI or Powershell. If I have a SQL Server (PaaS) which is not a VM, how do I associate the SQL Server to a...
Kidd_Ip
Nov 23, 2025MVP
You cannot directly associate an Azure SQL Database (PaaS) instance itself with an Application Security Group (ASG). Instead, you must associate the Private Endpoint’s NIC that represents the SQL service inside your VNet with the ASG. This is supported, but it requires a different workflow than with VM NICs.