Azure Service Bus vs CloudAMQP

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Azure Service Bus vs CloudAMQP: What are the differences?

Azure Service Bus and CloudAMQP are both messaging services that provide reliable message delivery between applications. However, there are several key differences between the two platforms.

  1. Pricing Model: Azure Service Bus has a pay-as-you-go pricing model, where customers are charged based on the number of operations performed and the amount of data transferred. On the other hand, CloudAMQP uses a subscription-based pricing model, where customers pay a fixed monthly fee based on the selected plan and the desired features.

  2. Hosting Infrastructure: Azure Service Bus is a fully managed service provided by Microsoft, with the infrastructure hosted on the Azure cloud platform. CloudAMQP, on the other hand, is a hosted RabbitMQ service, where the infrastructure is hosted and managed by CloudAMQP.

  3. Protocol Support: Azure Service Bus supports multiple protocols including AMQP, HTTPS, and Net Messaging. CloudAMQP, being a RabbitMQ-based service, primarily supports the AMQP protocol.

  4. Message Persistence: Azure Service Bus offers reliable message persistence by storing messages in the cloud, ensuring that they are not lost even in the event of failures. CloudAMQP also provides message persistence, but it relies on the underlying RabbitMQ infrastructure for storage.

  5. Integration: Azure Service Bus is tightly integrated with other Azure services, making it easy to integrate with other cloud-based services and applications. CloudAMQP can also be integrated with various cloud platforms and services, but it may require additional configuration and setup.

  6. Scalability: Azure Service Bus provides automatic scaling capabilities, allowing applications to scale up or down based on demand. CloudAMQP also supports scaling, but it may require manual configuration and monitoring to handle increased workload.

In Summary, Azure Service Bus and CloudAMQP differ in terms of pricing model, hosting infrastructure, protocol support, message persistence, integration capabilities, and scalability options.

Advice on Azure Service Bus and CloudAMQP
André Almeida
Technology Manager at GS1 Portugal - Codipor · | 5 upvotes · 415.7K views
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Hello dear developers, our company is starting a new project for a new Web App, and we are currently designing the Architecture (we will be using .NET Core). We want to embark on something new, so we are thinking about migrating from a monolithic perspective to a microservices perspective. We wish to containerize those microservices and make them independent from each other. Is it the best way for microservices to communicate with each other via ESB, or is there a new way of doing this? Maybe complementing with an API Gateway? Can you recommend something else different than the two tools I provided?

We want something good for Cost/Benefit; performance should be high too (but not the primary constraint).

Thank you very much in advance :)

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A Pro of Azure Service Bus is reliability and persistence: you can send message when receiver is offline; receiver can read it when it back online. A Cons is costs and message size. You can consider also SignalR

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There are many different messaging frameworks available for IPC use. It's not really a question of how "new" the technology is, but what you need it to do. Azure Service Bus can be a great service to use, but it can also take a lot of effort to administrate and maintain that can make it costly to use unless you need the more advanced features it offers for routing, sequencing, delivery, etc. I would recommend checking out this link to get a basic idea of different messaging architectures. These only cover Azure services, but there are many other solutions that use similar architectural models.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-grid/compare-messaging-services

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Decisions about Azure Service Bus and CloudAMQP
Mickael Alliel
DevOps Engineer at Rookout · | 4 upvotes · 434.9K views

In addition to being a lot cheaper, Google Cloud Pub/Sub allowed us to not worry about maintaining any more infrastructure that needed.

We moved from a self-hosted RabbitMQ over to CloudAMQP and decided that since we use GCP anyway, why not try their managed PubSub?

It is one of the better decisions that we made, and we can just focus about building more important stuff!

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Pros of Azure Service Bus
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    Easy Integration with .Net
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    Use while high messaging need
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    Some of the best customer support you'll ever find
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    Easy to provision

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Cons of Azure Service Bus
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    Limited features in Basic tier
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    Skills can only be used in Azure - vendor lock-in
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    Lacking in JMS support
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    Observability of messages in the queue is lacking
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    What is Azure Service Bus?

    It is a cloud messaging system for connecting apps and devices across public and private clouds. You can depend on it when you need highly-reliable cloud messaging service between applications and services, even when one or more is offline.

    What is CloudAMQP?

    Fully managed, highly available RabbitMQ servers and clusters, on all major compute platforms.

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