Messaging on Azure Blog

Azure Event Grid continues to evolve with new capabilities in General Availability and Public Preview – intended to help you enhance performance, security, and interoperability in modern event-driven systems. These…

Today, we are thrilled to announce the General Availability of the Geo-replication feature for Azure Event Hubs, now available in both Premium and Dedicated tiers. This milestone marks a significant enhancement…

Discover powerful new features in Azure Event Grid, enhancing its functionality and user experience. This fully managed event broker now supports multi-protocol interoperability, including MQTT, for scalable messaging. It seamlessly…

We are excited to announce the general availability of the Event Hubs Data Explorer in the Azure portal! Ever since our preview announcement in September, we've heard customers rave about how…

Azure Event Hubs is a cloud-native data streaming service that streams millions of events per second with low latency, from any source to any destination. Compatible with Apache Kafka®, it…

Azure Service Bus is a fully managed enterprise message broker offering queues and publish-subscribe topics. It decouples applications and services, providing benefits like load-balancing across workers, safe data and control…

We are excited to share several new updates and features in Azure Event Grid that enhance our service's capabilities and improve your experience. In this article, you will find more…

Introduction to Secure Remote Access with Azure Relay and Azbridge In modern IT environments, securely accessing on-premises resources from remote locations is a common challenge. Traditional methods, such as setting…

We are excited to announce the launch of the new Event Hubs Data Explorer feature in the Azure portal! This user-friendly yet highly powerful tool allows developers to generate and…

In 2016 we announced the general availability of Service Bus Premium, which offers dedicated resources and consistent performance for mission-critical workloads. At this point we also published a blogpost that…

When working with the Service Bus Explorer in the Azure portal, you may want to grant different permissions to different users, depending on their role and responsibility. For example, you…

We are thrilled to announce the public preview of Kafka Streams and Kafka Transactions functionality in Azure Event Hubs in the Premium and Dedicated tier. With this, Event Hubs has…

Today we are excited to announce the public preview of the new Geo-Replication feature for Azure Service Bus in the premium tier. This feature ensures that the metadata and data of…

  Azure Event Hubs is a fully managed, cloud-native, real-time data streaming service that enables you to stream millions of events per second from any source to build dynamic data…

Azure Messaging Update – May 2024     This update covers features being released at the Microsoft Build 2024 conference for the Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hubs and Azure…

We are pleased to announce the public preview of large message support (up to 20 MB) in Azure Event Hubs. Azure Event Hubs is a cloud native data streaming service…

Azure Service Bus is a fully managed enterprise message broker with message queues and publish-subscribe topics. Sometimes, you may want to delete messages from your queues and subscriptions in a…

Azure Event Hubs is a cloud native data streaming service that can stream millions of events per second, with low latency, from any source to any destination. Event Hubs is…

Today, we're excited to announce that compression for Kafka clients is generally available in Azure Event Hubs.   Azure Event Hubs is a cloud native streaming service enabling you to…

Ever since its general availability in November 2021, Azure Schema Registry has provided a central repository for schema documents, essential for event-driven and messaging-centric applications, greatly simplifying schema management, governance…

Azure Event Grid is a highly scalable, fully managed publish-subscribe message distribution service that offers flexible message consumption patterns using the MQTT and HTTP protocols. Our recent efforts have been…

Overview Azure Event Grid is a pub-sub message broker that enables you to integrate your solutions at scale using HTTP pull delivery, HTTP push delivery, and MQTT broker capability. The MQTT broker…

Microsoft is looking to enable TLS 1.3 for Azure Service Bus, and Azure Event Hubs.  We found however that there is a problem with some clients that use both Java…

What is Changing?  The infrastructure layer of Azure Event Hubs is being upgraded which will cause the IP addresses used by customer namespaces to change. These changes are being made as…

Overview Azure Event Grid is a pub-sub message broker that enables you to integrate your solutions at scale using HTTP pull delivery, HTTP push delivery, and the MQTT broker capability.…

What is Changing?  The infrastructure layer of Azure Relay and Service Bus is being upgraded which will cause the IP addresses used by customer namespaces to. For Azure Relay the…

What is Changing?  The infrastructure layer of Azure Relay and Service Bus is being upgraded which will cause the IP addresses used by customer namespaces to. For Azure Relay the…

Overview Azure Event Grid is a highly scalable, serverless messaging service you can use to integrate your solutions that include cloud application workloads as well as IoT devices. With its…

Kafka compression Microsoft is happy to announce the public preview of Kafka Compression for Apache Kafka on Azure Event Hubs.  Kafka Compression enables message producers to transmit compressed data which…

This update covers features we are releasing this year near the Ignite 2023 conference for the Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Event Grid and Azure Stream Analytics services.…

Today we are excited to announce General Availability of our partitioned namespaces feature, which allows the use of partitioning for the premium messaging tier. This means that the overall throughput of a partitioned…

Customers from various industries such as manufacturing, automotive, retail and more, are heavily investing in cloud solutions to harness their data and deliver new experiences for their customers. Meeting these…

On 30 September 2026, we'll retire the Azure Service Bus SDK libraries WindowsAzure.ServiceBus, Microsoft.Azure.ServiceBus, and com.microsoft.azure.servicebus, which don't conform to Azure SDK guidelines. Migrate to the latest Azure SDK libraries, which…

This blog describes the areas that will need inspection and further action to reference newer API versions in your application architecture. Customers who are using older control plane API versions…

  We are pleased to announce Data Generator – a new feature in Azure Event Hubs which would let you send/view events without writing a single line of code. No…

Using Event Hubs capture feature, you can load real-time streaming data to data lakes, warehouses, and other storage services, so that they can be processed or analyzed by analytics services. We're thrilled…

We are excited to announce the public preview of JSON schema support in the Azure Event Hubs schema registry for Kafka applications.  The Event Hubs schema registry offers a central…

We are excited to announce the general availability of Apache Kafka Connect, Kafka Compaction and Mirror Maker2 compatibility of Azure Event Hubs.   Why use Event Hubs to run Kafka…

Azure Messaging and Stream Processing updates will cover recent releases from Azure Messaging and Streaming. In this blog we will cover releases from Microsoft Fabric event streams, Azure Event Hubs,…

Azure Event Grid is built to handle high scale message routing from any source to any destination for any application by decoupling publishers from subscriber services. Today, we are announcing…

We are excited to share that Azure Service Bus now supports Azure Active Directory (AAD) based access control for its JMS 2.0 API. The azure-servicebus-jms library has been updated and…

Azure Event Hubs is a fully managed, multi-protocol, real-time data ingestion service that is designed to serve demanding data streaming workloads using Apache Kafka, AMQP or HTTPs protocols. Today, we…

We are excited to announce the release of auto-refresh of message counters on the queue overview blades in Service Bus portal experience. This feature updates the queue settings and message…

Azure Event Hubs is a fully managed, real-time data streaming service that can stream millions of events per second from any source using native AMQP or Apache Kafka API to…

We are happy to announce the public preview of log compaction feature in Azure Event Hubs. With log compaction, you can create compacted event hubs or compacted Kafka topics in…

Today we are announcing the availability of 220+ SAP S/4HANA events on Azure. A homologous announcement from SAP is found here.   Many companies rely on SAP S/4HANA and an…

Communication between a client application and an Azure Service Bus namespace is encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS). TLS is a standard cryptographic protocol that ensures privacy and data integrity…

Today we are pleased to announce that you will be able to enable much higher throughput levels for Azure Service Bus Premium. This is accomplished through two new features we…

Announcing Service Bus Explorer for Azure portal now GA Thanks to your support during the preview of the completely revamped Service Bus Explorer tool on the Azure portal, we are…

Azure Event Hubs enables you to stream millions of events per second from any source using Kafka, AMQP or HTTPS protocols and build end-to-end event streaming pipelines. We are excited…