Exploring Azure message queues
Microsoft Azure Service Bus is a fully managed enterprise integration message broker. Some common messaging scenarios are included in Service Bus, such as messaging in case of transferring data or decoupling applications to improve their reliability and their scalability and message sessions by implementing workflows that require message ordering, for example, or topics and subscriptions.
Azure supports the following two types of queuing mechanisms:
- Queue Storage is a simple message queue service for storing large numbers of messages
- Service Bus queues are part of a broader set of messaging services that support queuing, publishing/subscribing, and advanced integration patterns
Azure Queue Storage is a service for sending and receiving messages but is also used to store a large number of messages; a queue message can be up to 64 KB in size.
