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Azure Stream Analytics

byMicrosoft
in Event Stream Processing
4.3

Overview

Product Information on Azure Stream Analytics

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Azure Stream Analytics?

Azure Stream Analytics is a software developed by Microsoft for real-time data stream processing. It enables users to ingest, process, and analyze continuous data streams from sources such as devices, sensors, logs, and applications. The software supports complex event processing and temporal analysis, allowing for detection of patterns and trends within large volumes of incoming data. Azure Stream Analytics integrates with various data sources and cloud services, offering capabilities for transforming, aggregating, and visualizing data outputs. It addresses business challenges related to monitoring, event tracking, and instant insights by providing fast and scalable analytics solutions without requiring manual infrastructure management.

Azure Stream Analytics Pricing

Azure Stream Analytics software uses a consumption-based pricing model, which charges based on the number of streaming units used during data processing operations Alternatively, there are options for reserved capacity pricing that provide discounted rates for pre-purchased streaming units The software costs are incurred according to resource usage including the volume of data processed and the duration of running analytics jobs

Overall experience with Azure Stream Analytics

SALES MANAGER
500M - 1B USD, Manufacturing
FAVORABLE

“Real-Time Insights Made Easy- Azure Stream Analytics ”

4.0
Oct 17, 2023
A powerful and versatile service that stands out a robust solution for real time data analysis and event processing. Provides seamless data integration which can ingest data from variety of sources, including IoT devices, social media, sensors, and applications. Its real time data processing ensures that businesses can make quick and informed decisions based on fresh and actionable insights. Its scalability and integration allows organization to adapt to changing data volumes effortlessly also enabling users to leverage the power of Azure ecosystem for more advanced analytics and machine learning. Its extensive connectivity offers a vast library of connectors to various data sources and sinks.
HEAD OF TECHNOLOGY
30B + USD, Retail
CRITICAL

“Average in market”

3.0
Aug 27, 2023
not the best in market, but makes sense if your data suite is on azure

About Company

Company Description

Updated 11th August 2023

Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft is dedicated to advancing human and organizational achievement. Microsoft Security helps protect people and data against cyberthreats to give peace of mind.

Company Details

Updated 25th March 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1975
Head office location
Redmond, Washington, United States
Number of employees
10000+
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
Website
https://microsoft.com

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Deciding Factors: Azure Stream Analytics Vs. Market Average
Performance of Azure Stream Analytics Across Market Features

Azure Stream Analytics Likes & Dislikes

Like

Provides complex event processing capabilities which enables organization to identify patterns, anomalies and correlations in real time data. User friendly development environment offering both a code based approach and a visual interface. Monitoring and troubleshoot capabilities. Economical pricing model

Like

deep integration with other azure capabilities

Like

Cost efficiency allows you to pay only for the resources you use, reducing operational cost and providing flexibility for varying workloads. Seamless integration capabilities. Real time insights

Dislike

Cost of scalability

Dislike

functions and features are just average among competitors

Dislike

Use cases complexity

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Azure Stream Analytics Reviews and Ratings

4.3

(51 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
35%
4 Star
59%
3 Star
6%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
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Evaluation & Contracting

4.4

Integration & Deployment

4.5

Service & Support

4.4

Product Capabilities

4.5

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  • SALES MANAGER
    50M-1B USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    Real-Time Insights Made Easy- Azure Stream Analytics

    4.0
    Oct 17, 2023
    A powerful and versatile service that stands out a robust solution for real time data analysis and event processing. Provides seamless data integration which can ingest data from variety of sources, including IoT devices, social media, sensors, and applications. Its real time data processing ensures that businesses can make quick and informed decisions based on fresh and actionable insights. Its scalability and integration allows organization to adapt to changing data volumes effortlessly also enabling users to leverage the power of Azure ecosystem for more advanced analytics and machine learning. Its extensive connectivity offers a vast library of connectors to various data sources and sinks.
  • CLUSTER SALES MANAGER CSM
    50M-1B USD
    Consumer Goods
    Review Source

    Master your real-time insights with Azure Stream analytics

    4.0
    Oct 13, 2023
    It is a versatile real time data streaming service offered by Microsoft azure cloud platform. Its real time data ingestion excels its ability to ingest and process high velocity data from diverse source, including IoT device, social media feeds, sensors and more. Also it is use of familiar SQL like query language for data processing. Although its real time analytics empowers organizations to drive actionable insights from streaming data without requiring extensive development efforts. Its scalability and resilience offers horizontal scalability, which allows you to adjust resources to match your data processing requirements. Its integration capabilities seamlessly integrates with other azure service, such as Azure machine learning, Power BI.
  • BIDDABLE EXECUTIVE
    1B-10B USD
    Media
    Review Source

    Harnessing and analyzing vast amount of real time data from IoT devices

    4.0
    Sep 30, 2023
    Azure Stream Analytics ingest, process and analyze stream data from various sources such as iot devices, sensors, social media and more. The tool allows for the creation of real time data pipelines and hence enabling us to gain valuable insights and take immediate actions on streaming data.
  • Senior Product Manager
    50M-1B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    It helps a lot with data processing and analytics

    4.0
    Oct 1, 2023
    Azure stream analytics is a game changer product that has redefined the way data is processed and analyzed in real time. It is one of the best tool in the market.
  • Manager of IT Services
    1B-10B USD
    Real Estate
    Review Source

    Azure Stream Analytics

    4.0
    Sep 29, 2023
    This real time Azure stream analytics enables us to process and analyze data in real-time and helps gain deep insights and take required action on the data generated.
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