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Hadoop instance for a week
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Hadoop instance for a week
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- Stream Analytics Real-time stream processing
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Notification Hubs
Send push notifications to any platform from any backend
- Reach all major platforms—iOS, Android, Windows, Kindle, Baidu
- Use any backend, in the cloud or on-premises
- Fast broadcast push to millions of mobile devices with single API call
- Tailor push notifications by user, language, and location
- Dynamically define and notify user segments
- Scale instantly to millions of mobile devices
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Fast broadcast to millions of devices
Azure Notification Hubs is a massively scalable mobile push notification engine for quickly sending millions of notifications to iOS, Android, Windows, or Kindle devices, working with APNS (Apple Push Notification Services), GCM (Google Cloud Message), WNS (Windows Push Notification Services), MPNS (Microsoft Push Notification Service), and more. Tailor notifications to specific users—or entire audiences—with just a few lines of code, and do it across any platform.
Works with any back end
Notification Hubs is flexible enough to plug into any backend—.NET, PHP, Java, Node.js—whether it’s located on-premises or in the cloud. This makes it easier to instantly update your mobile apps and engage your customers.
Target any audience with dynamic tags
Broadcast push notifications to everyone at once or target specific user devices using the Notification Hubs tagging feature. Tags let you segment users based on activity, interest, location, or preference, so you deliver the right content to the right person at the right time.
Make localization easier with templates
If your app covers multiple markets, the templates feature of Notification Hubs provides a handy way to send localized push notifications, so you’re speaking to customers in their languages. Templates also eliminate the hassle of storing the localization settings for each customer or creating hundreds of tags.
Designed for massive scale
Quickly scale to millions of mobile devices and billions of notifications without re-architecting or sharding. Notification Hubs automatically handles the infrastructure necessary to scale your message to every active device with incredibly low latency.
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