Enabling IoT in Azure
When we think about IoT, one of the greatest worries is the scalability of the solution. Considering that we are designing a solution to facilitate connection with a great number of devices, the best way to enable IoT in Azure is by using IoT Hub. IoT Hub creates a great environment for connecting, monitoring, and managing your IoT devices, offering a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution that will make you focus on the application you are working on.
There are two tiers of pricing for IoT Hub in Azure and the Free Edition of it. The Free Edition enables up to 8,000 messages of 0.5KB a day and it has the same features we have in the Standard tier. If you go for the Basic or Standard tiers, this can be increased to up to 3 billion messages of 4KB a day! The standard tier also offers device management, cloud-to-device messaging, and IoT Edge. Besides that, the Standard tier has a layer of security managed by Defender, called Defender for IoT. This information...