Azure Web PubSub
Develop web applications with real-time messaging using WebSockets and the publish-subscribe pattern.
OVERVIEW
Build real-time messaging into your web applications
Get a fully managed service that supports native and serverless WebSockets with Azure Web PubSub. Create loosely coupled, scalable applications—including chats, live broadcasting, and IoT dashboards—with the publish-subscribe messaging pattern.
- Add real-time messaging and communication functionality to your application without the need to provision and maintain WebSocket servers. As a fully managed service, Web PubSub handles hosting, scalability, load balancing, and other tasks so you’re free to focus on what you do best.
- Deliver real-time messages to your customers anywhere across web applications, mobile platforms, and desktop platforms with flexible SDKs.
- Add sophisticated capabilities to your applications using Azure services—such as Azure AI Services for speech recognition and machine learning—and help protect them with built-in Azure security.
- Start building your web applications for free, then scale up according to your needs with flexible pricing.
FEATURES
Build real-time communication channels quickly and at scale
Real-time messaging
Real-time publish-subscribe messaging for web application development through native and serverless WebSocket support.
Large-scale client connections
Built-in support for large-scale client connections and highly available architectures.
Support
Support for a wide variety of client SDKs and programming languages.
Security
Embedded security and compliance
34,000
Full-time equivalent engineers dedicated to security initiatives at Microsoft.
15,000
Partners with specialized security expertise.
>100
Compliance certifications, including over 50 specific to global regions and countries.
PRICING
Azure Web PubSub pricing
Enjoy flexible, per-hour billing with no upfront costs or termination fees and start scaling as needed.
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