Your Azure subscription contains the resources shown in the table. How do you ensure data transferred between storage1 and VM1 does NOT go over the public internet?

A private endpoint ensures data transfer between storage1 and VM1 does not traverse the public internet by creating a private IP address for the storage account within your virtual network. This allows VM1 to connect to storage1 using a private link, keeping all traffic within the Azure backbone network. Data protection is a broad term referring to security measures, not a specific networking solution for private connectivity. Public network access setting in Firewalls and virtual networks controls whether the storage account is accessible from the public internet, but it doesn't create a private connection for specific resources. A shared access signature (SAS) provides delegated access to resources in your storage account but does not dictate the network path of the data transfer.