Azure Storage Queues
Azure Storage Queues is a cloud-based message queuing service provided by Microsoft Azure, designed for storing large numbers of messages that can be accessed asynchronously across distributed applications. It enables reliable communication between decoupled components by allowing producers to send messages and consumers to retrieve them, supporting features like message expiration, visibility timeouts, and poison message handling. It is part of the Azure Storage service, which also includes Blobs, Files, and Tables, offering a scalable and durable solution for cloud messaging.
Developers should use Azure Storage Queues when building cloud-native or hybrid applications that require asynchronous, decoupled communication between microservices, background job processing, or task offloading to improve scalability and fault tolerance. It is particularly useful in scenarios like order processing in e-commerce, event-driven architectures, or handling bursty workloads where messages need to be persisted reliably, as it integrates seamlessly with other Azure services and supports high throughput with low latency.