Introduction to Azure Stream Analytics

Microsoft Azure Stream Analytics falls into the category of PaaS services where the customers don't need to manage the underlying infrastructure. However, they are still responsible and manage an application that builds on the top of PaaS service and more importantly the customer data.

Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed server-less PaaS service that is built for real-time analytics computations on streaming data. The service can consume from a multitude of sources. Azure will take care of the hosting, scaling, and management of the underlying hardware and software ecosystem. The following are some of the examples of different use cases for Azure Stream Analytics.

When we are designing the solution that involves streaming data, in almost every case, Azure Stream Analytics will be part of a larger solution that the customer was trying to deploy. This can be real-time dashboarding for monitoring purposes or real-time monitoring of IT infrastructure...