Service bus is available on azure platform with three different messaging possibilities:
- Service Bus Queue
- Service Bus Topic
- Service Bus Relay
Service Bus Queue | It’s available for Basic Price Tier. |
Service Bus Topic | It’s available for Standard / Premium Price Tier. |
Service Bus Relay |
Service Bus is usually for the enterprise level solutions, where the following items must be considered in the solution:
- Multi components communicate with each other via brokered messaging
- Communication is discrete.
- A broker is needed to distribute the messages between components.
- The message order is important (FIFO).
- The application can have multi-tier architecture.
- The application is hybrid (partially on-prem and partially cloud-based).
- The applicaions of different departments must communicate with each other.
Service bus is created as a namespace and the message streamings are defined in the namespace and the price tier is defined at namespace level.
With Premium price tier is possible to define the Message Units. The message unit, isolate the workload processing in CPU and Memory. therefore, the partitioning option is removed from Create Queue and Topic blade. Two are features for premium are:
- Event -> for automation
- Firewall and virtual networks
Bus Service Overview






Shared Access Policies: in this blade we access the primary & secondary key & connection.

Queues: Add serveral queues.
Topics: Add several topics.
Secure Acceess
Uses the Shared Access Signature (SAS) with full access. This is generated by creating the service bus namesapace.
For Developers
The development has two parts
- Sending message to the service bus queue
- Handling/ process the messages in the service bus queue
Resources
- Microsoft Service Bus
- Get started with Service Bus queues (Microsoft Doc)
- Use Azure PowerShell to create a Service Bus queue (Microsoft Doc)