In early September, Microsoft announced a premium tier to its messaging offering known as Azure Service Bus Premium Messaging. The premium service includes existing cloud based messaging capabilities, such as Queues and Topics, but delivers them over dedicated infrastructure in order to provide a more predictable experience for customers.
Clemens Vasters, lead architect, Microsoft Azure Messaging Services describes the new service in the following way: “Azure Service Bus Premium Messaging is a new offering, now entering public preview that builds on the successful and reliable foundation of Service Bus Messaging. Premium Messaging provides a number of key enhancements for greater predictability and performance required for the most demanding workloads – paired with an equally predictable pricing model.”
With the new service, customers can continue to use existing APIs and tooling when publishing or receiving messages to/from the service. The service continues to be a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering, but in this case, provides exclusive compute, memory and storage allocations.
