2.4.2 Configure your Microsoft Azure EventHub environment
Azure Event Hubs is a highly scalable publish-subscribe service that can ingest millions of events per second and stream them into multiple applications. This lets you process and analyze the massive amounts of data produced by your connected devices and applications.
What is Azure Event Hubs?
Azure Event Hubs is a big data streaming platform and event ingestion service. It can receive and process millions of events per second. Data sent to an event hub can be transformed and stored by using any real-time analytics provider or batching/storage adapters.
Event Hubs represents the front door for an event pipeline, often called an event ingestor in solution architectures. An event ingestor is a component or service that sits between event publishers (like 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Experience Platform RTCDP) and event consumers to decouple the production of an event stream from the consumption of those events. Event Hubs provides a unified streaming platform with time retention buffer, decoupling event producers from event consumers.
Create a Event Hubs namespace
Go to and select Create a resource.
In the resource screen, enter Event in the search bar. Find the Event Hubs card, click Create and then click Event Hubs…
If this is the first time that you create a resource in Azure, you will need to create a new Resource group. If you have already a resource group you can select it (or create a new one).
Click Create new and name your group --aepUserLdap---aep-enablement, click OK.
Complete the rest of the fields as indicated:
- Namespace : Define your namespace, it has to be unique, use the following pattern
--aepUserLdap---aep-enablement - Location: choose any location
- Pricing tier: Basic
- Throughput Units: 1
Click Review + create.
Click Create.
The deployment of your resource group can take 1-2 minutes, when successful you will see the following screen:
Setup your Event Hub in Azure
Go to and select All resources.
From the resource list, click your --aepUserLdap---aep-enablement Event Hubs Namespace:
In --aepUserLdap---aep-enablement detail screen, go to Entities and click Event Hubs:
Click + Event Hub.
Use --aepUserLdap---aep-enablement-event-hub as the name and click Review + Create.
Click Create.
In Event Hubs under your event hub namespace, you’ll now see your Event Hub listed.
Setup your Azure Storage Account
To debug your Azure Event Hub function in later exercises, you’ll need to provide an Azure Storage Account as part of your Visual Studio Code project setup. You’ll now create that Azure Storage Account.
Go to and select Create a Resource.
Enter storage account in the search, find the card for Storage Account and click Storage account…
Specify your Resource Group (created in the beginning of this exercise), use --aepUserLdap--aepstorage as your Storage account name and select Locally-redundant storage (LRS), then click Review + create.
Click Create.
Creation of our storage account will take a couple seconds:
When finished your screen will display the Go to resource button.
Click Home.
Your Storage Account is now visible under Recent Resources.
Next Step: 2.4.3 Configure your Azure Event Hub Destination in 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Experience Platform