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, and Azure Stream Analytics.
You can now ingest, capture, transform and route real-time events to various destinations in Microsoft Fabric with a no-code experience using Microsoft Fabric event streams. It enables customers to ingest real-time event data from external event sources into the data stores in Fabric. The events could be transformed into the native formats required for the target destination. For example, Microsoft Fabric event streams could transform the events into Delta Lake format for the Lakehouse, into SQL columns based on the table schema, or filter events so that homogenous data can be sent to a KQL table. To find out more about event streams please see this blog.
Earlier this year, Azure Event Hubs launched their Dedicated self-serve clusters capability to GA. This new capability has been well received and provides high performance and low-latency event streaming. Now at BUILD, Azure Event Hubs has a number of additional changes to announce that make the overall platform even better.
Each of these items are covered in greater depth in their respective announcement blog:
Apache Kafka related changes
Managed Identity for streaming capture
JSON Schema in schema registry for Kafka
Data generator public preview
Azure Event Grid now supports bi-directional communication via MQTT version 5 and MQTT version 3.1.1 protocols in Public Preview. This makes Azure Event Grid the first of its kind, MQTT broker in Azure, enabling users to send billions of messages from millions of simultaneously connected devices. Customers can now leverage the lightweight MQTT protocol to publish and subscribe to messages for telemetry ingestion, client command and control, and broadcast scenarios to build the next generation of applications faster through this fully managed service. MQTT messages can be processed further with powerful analytics services in Azure, for example, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Data Explorer etc., to derive insights from large volume of data quickly.
Azure Event Grid has always offered push delivery of these events, through which events are pushed to the destination through an event subscription. Our customers are looking for processing events from highly secure environments without configuring a public end point, control over the rate and volume of messages consumed, much larger throughput and more out-of-the-box functionality from a single service. Today, we are also announcing the public preview of pull delivery of messages on custom topics. This gives more flexibility to the applications handling the events and enables the use of private links when receiving events.
In response to valuable feedback from our customers and the evolving market demands, we have been diligently working on enhancing our product to better align with the requirements. We are thrilled to announce today our new pricing model and exciting new features that will significantly improve the productivity, affordability, and security of processing streaming data.
Announcing Up to 80% Pricing Decrease
Customers are enjoying excellent performance, high availability, low-code/no-code experiences, and rich development tools. To make streaming analytics with Azure Stream Analytics an even easier for our customers, we are happy to announce a new pricing model which offers discounts up to 80%, with no changes to the full suite of capabilities. The new pricing model offers graduated pricing where eligible customers receive discounts as they grow their usage. This new transparent and competitive pricing model supports the team’s longtime mission of democratizing stream processing for all. New pricing model will take effect on July 1st, 2023. More information is available in this blog.
New features
Each of these items are covered in greater depth in their respective announcement blog/documentation:
The full set of new features of Azure Stream Analytics are listed in Exciting announcements by Azure Stream Analytics at Build 2023.
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