Microsoft Azure Event Grid
Reliable event delivery at massive scale.
Overview
Azure Event Grid is a highly scalable, serverless event broker that you can use to integrate applications using events. It allows for reactive, event-driven programming by distributing events from sources, like Azure services or custom applications, to subscriber handlers.
✨ Key Features
- Serverless event routing
- Near real-time event delivery
- Broad event source coverage (Azure services and custom sources)
- Event filtering
- Pay-per-event pricing
- High availability and disaster recovery
🎯 Key Differentiators
- Deep integration with the Microsoft Azure ecosystem
- Push-based delivery model simplifies subscriber logic
- Support for both cloud events and MQTT for IoT
Unique Value: Build event-driven architectures on Azure with a highly scalable, serverless event broker.
🎯 Use Cases (4)
✅ Best For
- Triggering an Azure Function to process an image when it's added to Blob Storage
- Automating infrastructure changes in response to Azure resource events
- Sending notifications to a Logic App when a new message arrives in a Service Bus queue
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- Simple, no-code workflow automation for non-technical users
- Integrations primarily outside the Microsoft Azure ecosystem
🏆 Alternatives
Event Grid is designed as a push-based event routing service, differing from pull-based message queues like Azure Service Bus. It's a managed service that is simpler to configure for event-driven architectures on Azure compared to setting up a message broker like RabbitMQ or Kafka.
💻 Platforms
🔌 Integrations
🛟 Support Options
- ✓ Email Support
- ✓ Live Chat
- ✓ Phone Support
- ✓ Dedicated Support (Azure Standard/ProDirect/Premier Support tier)
🔒 Compliance & Security
💰 Pricing
Free tier: 100,000 operations/month
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