Short for Advanced Message Queuing Protocol; Service Bus and Event Hubs accept it as well as HTTPS.
Also called Advanced Message Queuing Protocol.
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In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains AMQP in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Service Bus
Azure's enterprise messaging service, offering topics and queues, transactions, dead-lettering and session-based ordering.
- Azure Event Hubs
Azure service for ingesting telemetry at high volume over HTTPS or AMQP; diagnostic settings can send data to it.
- HTTPS
Secure HTTP, wrapped in TLS. VCF products serve their web UIs and REST APIs this way on 443.
Related terms
- CES
Sends every row change in a stream group's tables to Fabric Eventstream or Azure Event Hubs, each as a CloudEvent. It's in preview for SQL database in Fabric, Managed Instance, Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2025; delivery over AMQP was deprecated on 15 August 2026, with Kafka the recommended route.
- Custom endpoint
Lets your own app push events into, or read events out of, an eventstream. It provides connection details for Kafka, AMQP or Event Hubs protocols, secured with either Entra ID or a SAS key, and can act as a source or a destination.
- SBMP
Older .NET Framework Service Bus libraries talked to the service over this SOAP-based protocol. It stopped being supported on 30 September 2026; current SDKs using AMQP are the way forward.