# Azure

From [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Azure):

Microsoft Azure, commonly referred to as Azure (/ˈæʒər/), is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centers. It provides software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and supports many different programming languages, tools, and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems.

Hop supports Azure through a number of metadata types:

### Pipeline Transforms

* [Azure Event Hubs Listener](/data-shaper-1.21/knowing-the-data-shaper-designer/pipelines/transforms/azure-event-hubs-listener.md): listens indefinitely to an Event Hub on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.
* [Azure Event Hubs Writer](/data-shaper-1.21/knowing-the-data-shaper-designer/pipelines/transforms/azure-event-hubs-writer.md): allows you to write messages (events) to a streaming service bus called Event Hubs on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.

### VFS

Apache [VFS Support](/data-shaper-1.21/knowing-the-data-shaper-designer/apache-hop-virtual-file-system.md) in Hop allows you to directly read from a multitude of file systems and protocols, including Azure:

* [Azure Blob Storage](/data-shaper-1.21/knowing-the-data-shaper-designer/apache-hop-virtual-file-system/azure-blob-storage-vfs.md): read from and write data directly in Azure Blob Storage


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