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I have a simple requirement, 1 million devices need to send a simple heartbeat to the event hub every 5 seconds, that works out to 200000 events per second. Since 1 throughput unit supports only 1000 events\sec, do I really need to purchase 200 throughput units to implement a simple heartbeat mechanism?

I'm really wondering about the claim of event hub supporting millions of events per second, how is that possible if a throughput unit only supports 1000. I need a HUGE number of throughput units and that's going to burn every last dollar. Unless I'm really missing something.

Md Farid Uddin Kiron
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Vikram Dwarakanath
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  • check these out http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35520002/should-the-event-hub-have-same-number-of-partitions-as-throughput-units https://alexandrebrisebois.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/getting-acquainted-with-azure-service-bus-event-hubs/ – Aravind Jul 04 '16 at 16:48
  • Have you looked at IoT Hub? Out of curiosity, why send an heartbeat every 5 seconds? – CSharpRocks Jul 04 '16 at 17:12
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    Eventhub does support your use case and you already seem to know how to accomplish that. Is this just a price rant? (I agree that prices are really high but this is not the place to complain about prices.) – usr Jul 04 '16 at 19:16
  • You'd pay 12000$ per month for those events. You would pay a tiny amount if you ran that solution on your own server (likely, an 80$/month server could handle all load and you need 2 for HA). Cloud is not cheap. – usr Jul 04 '16 at 19:22

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