Microsoft Azure EventHubs is a highly-scalable high-throughput low-latency durable event ingestion system in Azure cloud. EventHubs serves as an event buffer for applications to process events with variable load profiles. Microsoft Azure Event Hubs is comparable to Apache Kafka or AWS Kinesis. This is a fully-managed service-offering built & run by the teams at Microsoft.
Microsoft Azure EventHubs is a highly scalable high throughput low latency durable event ingestion system in Azure cloud. EventHubs serves as an event buffer for applications to process events with variable load profiles.
Stream millions of events per second into multiple applications
Event Hubs is a highly scalable publish-subscribe ingestor that can intake millions of events per second so that you can process and analyze the massive amounts of data produced by your connected devices and applications. Once collected into Event Hubs you can transform and store data using any real-time analytics provider or with batching/storage adapters.
Enable applications to process events with variable load profiles
Today’s connected world is defined by big data. Big data originates from many sources such as connected cars and thermostats that produce telemetry data every few minutes, application performance counters that generate events every second or mobile apps that capture telemetry for every user’s individual action. In this connected world, you need a managed ingestor service capable of elastic scale in order to accommodate variable load profiles as well as the spikes caused by intermittent connectivity.
Connect millions of devices across platforms
The rapid proliferation of connected devices raises challenges due to the variety of platforms and protocols involved. Connecting these disparate data sources while handling the scale of the aggregate stream is a significant challenge. Event Hubs provide easy provisioning of capacity to ingest events from millions of devices while preserving event order on a per device basis. Support for AMQP and HTTP allow many platforms to work with Event Hubs. Native client libraries also exist for popular platforms.
