# Azure Service Bus > Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Optimly AI Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-10-04. - **Business Profile:** https://optimly.ai/brand/azure-service-bus - **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/azure-service-bus.json - **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/azure-service-bus/llms.txt - **Official website:** https://microsoft.com - **Slug:** azure-service-bus - **Categories:** cloud-infrastructure, developer-tools ## Overview - **Tagline:** Unique support for enterprise messaging features like sessions, transactions, and long-polling within a natively integrated cloud ecosystem. Source: Brand's website (https://microsoft.com) · 2026-10-04 - **Description:** Azure Service Bus is a fully managed enterprise integration message broker hosted on Microsoft Azure. It provides reliable and secure asynchronous data transfer between decoupled applications and services, supporting complex messaging patterns like pub/sub and FIFO queues via standard protocols like AMQP. Source: Brand's website (https://microsoft.com) · 2026-10-04 ## Offerings - **Core capabilities:** - Azure Service Bus Queues - Azure Service Bus Topics/Subscriptions Source: Brand's website (https://microsoft.com) · 2026-10-04 - **Pricing:** Usage-based (Standard) and Tiered Subscription (Premium) Source: Brand's website (https://microsoft.com) · 2026-10-04 ## Audience - **Target industry:** Enterprise IT, Software Developers, Cloud Architects, Financial Services Source: Brand's website (https://microsoft.com) · 2026-10-04 ## Landscape - **Competitors:** - Amazon SQS/SNS - RabbitMQ - Google Cloud Pub/Sub - Apache Kafka / Confluent Source: Brand's website (https://microsoft.com) · 2026-10-04 Page last updated 2026-10-17.