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Diagnosing and Fixing Outbound SNAT Port Exhaustion on Azure VMs, VMSS, AKS, and App Service
Outbound calls timing out under load while CPU and memory look healthy often means SNAT port exhaustion. Confirm it with Load Balancer metrics, then fix it with NAT Gateway, connection reuse, or scale-out.