On July 15th, Microsoft announced the Azure Premium Messaging service has reached General Availability (GA). It has been ten months since Microsoft launched their public preview. InfoQ previously covered the Public Preview announcement in November 2015. Azure Premium Messaging is built on Microsoft’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) messaging platform called Azure Service Bus.
The premium service includes existing cloud-based messaging capabilities found in the Azure Service Bus Standard Messaging tier, such as Queues and Topics. However, Premium Messaging is not a multi-tenant messaging platform, like the Standard Messaging tier, and allows customers to take advantage of dedicated compute for their workloads.
