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Upgrade your existing Service Bus standard namespaces to premium in-place
Upgrade existing multi-tenant Service Bus standard namespaces to dedicated premium namespaces by using our new migration tool.
February 2019
Public preview: Azure Service Bus for Node.js
A new AMQP-based package for Azure Service Bus for Node.js is now available.
Service Bus unit of measure change
Effective March 1, 2019, the names for Service Bus Standard Base Unit will change.
Public preview: Azure Service Bus for Go
Send messages asynchronously between your Go services by using the new preview package for Azure Service Bus.
Public preview: Azure Service Bus for Python
A package for using Azure Service Bus from Python over AMQP is now available in preview.
January 2019
Service Bus and Event Hubs Availability Zones now generally available (GA)
Availability Zones support is now generally available for Azure Service Bus premium and Azure Event Hubs standard in every Azure region that has zone redundant datacenters.
December 2018
Azure Service Bus and Azure Event Hubs Virtual Networks and Firewall rules are now generally available
Virtual Networks and Firewall rules for both Azure Event Hubs and Azure Service Bus are now generally available.
November 2018
Service Bus name changes
Effective January 1, 2019, the names for Azure Service Bus Messaging will change.
April 2018
GUID migration: Azure Service Bus, US Government regions
Starting on May 1, 2018, you’ll be billed at an hourly rate for Service Bus standard base units and Service Bus premium messaging units.
GUID migration: Azure Service Bus
On May 1, 2018, Azure Service Bus Standard Base Unit and Service Bus Premium Messaging Units will start being billed at an hourly rate from the current daily rate.
July 2017
General availability: Azure Relay Hybrid Connections
Azure Relay Hybrid Connections is generally available.
August 2016
Service Bus messaging in the Azure portal
You can now use the new Azure portal to create and manage Service Bus messaging resources (namespaces, queues, and topics).
July 2016
General availability: Service Bus Premium Messaging released to general availability
To better support a broader array of mission-critical cloud apps, Azure Service Bus Premium messaging is now generally available.
September 2015
Public preview: Azure Service Bus Premium messaging
To better support a broader array of mission-critical cloud apps, we’ve introduced Azure Service Bus Premium messaging.
August 2015
Learning path for Azure Service Bus
A new learning path for Azure Service Bus has been published.
October 2014
Updates to Service Bus pricing
In July 2014, we announced changes to Service Bus Queues and Topics, with messaging now offered in Basic and Standard tiers. These new tiers provide price flexibility that better accommodate different use cases. Updated pricing for these changes will be effective starting November 1, 2014, and not October 1, 2014, as previously communicated.
July 2014
Pricing changes for Service Bus Queues and Topics
Service Bus Basic and Standard tiers provide price flexibility that better accommodate different use cases.
February 2014
Service Health Notifications added to the Management Portal
This post describes Azure Service Health Notifications (also known as Incident Notifications) within the Azure Management Portal.
January 2014
ISO Certification expanded to include more Azure services
Azure ISO Certification expanded to include SQL Database, Active Directory, Traffic Manager, Web Sites, BizTalk Services, Media Services, Mobile Services, Service Bus, Multi-Factor Authentication, and HDInsight.
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