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What is IoT Hub?

The IoT Hub is a fully managed, scalable and fault-tolerant platform for your IoT applications. IoT Hub is for everyone who would like to use IoT Hub but don’t want to host their own instance of the platform. As a platform user, you get a tenant account with certain entity and API limits that are defined based on the subscription plan.

With IoT Hub you get the following benefits:

  • Advanced features. Platform supports all Professional Edition features and advanced domain management.
  • Improved time to market. Save time on maintenance of the platform or configuration of the features.
  • Reduced costs. The cost of the cluster infrastructure is shared between the users of the platform.
  • High availability. IoT Hub uses microservices architecture and is deployed in multiple availability zones.
  • Data durability. Platform uses data replication and backup procedures to make sure you don’t lose the data.

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