Azure Streaming Analytics

Question 1

What is Azure Stream Analytics

Answer 1

Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed stream processing engine that is designed to analyze and process large volumes of streaming data with sub-millisecond latencies.

Question 2

Is Stream Analytics also available on the Azure IoT Edge runtime?

Answer 2

Yes; Stream Analytics is also available on the Azure IoT Edge runtime, which enables you to process data directly from IoT devices.

Question 3

What are the use cases for Azure Stream Analytics?

Answer 3

Anomaly detection in sensor data to detect spikes, dips, and slow positive and negative changes

Geo-spatial analytics for fleet management and driverless vehicles

Remote monitoring and predictive maintenance of high value assets

Clickstream analytics to determine customer behavior

Analyze real-time telemetry streams and logs from applications and IoT devices

Question 4

Is Azure Stream Analytics fully managed?

Answer 4

Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed (PaaS) offering on Azure. You don’t have to provision any hardware or infrastructure, update OS, or software. Azure Stream Analytics fully manages your job, so you can focus on your business logic and not on the infrastructure.

Question 5

Does Azure Stream Analytics store data?

Answer 5

No, it relies on other storage.