Azure Notification Hubs Blog

FCM v1 SDK preview program

January 31, 2024 Jan 31, 2024 01/31/24

Heather Tian

We are excited to announce that core capabilities for the integration of Azure Notification Hubs (ANH) with Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) v1 SDKs are ready for testing. As a reminder, Google will stop supporting FCM Legacy HTTP on June 20, 2024, so you will need to migrate your applications and notification payloads to the new format before ...

FCM v1 Update as of Jan 2024

January 12, 2024 Jan 12, 2024 01/12/24

Heather Tian

We are excited to announce that core capabilities for the integration of Azure Notification Hubs (ANH) with Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) v1 is ready for testing. As a reminder, Google will stop supporting FCM Legacy HTTP on June 20, 2024, so you will need to migrate your applications and notification payloads to the new format before then. ...

Introducing Private Link (Public Preview)

November 10, 2023 Nov 10, 2023 11/10/23

Heather Tian

We are excited to announce the public preview of Private Link, a new feature that enables you to connect to your data sources privately and securely from within your own virtual network. Private Link provides a direct and encrypted connection between your virtual network and your data source, without exposing your data to the public internet. ...

Announcing Public Preview of Web Push Notifications with Azure Notification Hubs

September 26, 2023 Sep 26, 2023 09/26/23

Heather Tian

We are extremely excited to announce the public preview of Azure Notification Hubs Web Push Notifications. We know this has been a long asked for feature and we’re happy to say that you can now send notification messages via web browsers with ANH. Azure Notification Hubs now supports Browser Push for all major browsers including Microsoft ...

Introducing Availability Zones GA for Azure Notification Hubs

September 11, 2023 Sep 11, 2023 09/11/23

Heather Tian

We are excited to announce another new general available feature that improves the high availability of your push notifications: Availability Zones. This feature is available for an extra cost of $350 a month for all tiers. Starting October 9th, all customers including those who were previously in preview will begin to be billed for the ...

Introducing flexible recovery region for Azure Notification Hubs

August 25, 2023 Aug 25, 2023 08/25/23

Heather Tian

Flexible recovery region now in GA We are excited to announce that flexible recovery region for Azure Notification Hubs is now generally available (GA) for all customers. All tiers provide a flexible recovery region option, enabling you to choose from a list of supported regions. In regions with availability zones and no region pair, you can...

FCM v1 Migration Steps (Preview)

July 31, 2023 Jul 31, 2023 07/31/23

Heather Tian

Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) legacy API will be deprecated by Jul 2024. The ANH team is preparing so customers can begin migrating from Legacy HTTP protocol to FCM v1. Customers may start this migration process March 1, 2024 and will need to be migrated by June 2024. No action is required at this time, further instructions will be made ...

New high availability features for Azure Notification Hubs (Preview)

July 19, 2023 Jul 19, 2023 07/19/23

Heather Tian

We are excited to announce that the new high availability features Availability Zones and flexible disaster recovery are now available for preview for your ANH push notifications. Azure Notification Hubs currently offers default paired secondary regions that act as a backup in case of a regional outage. If the primary region becomes ...

Migrating Notification Hubs from FCM Legacy HTTP to FCM v1

July 6, 2023 Jul 6, 2023 07/6/23

Heather Tian

Update as of June 2023: Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) is a service that, among other things, facilitates developers sending push notifications to Google Play supported Android devices. ANH currently communicates with FCM using the Legacy HTTP protocol. FCM v1 is an updated API that offers more features and capabilities. Google announced that...

Targeting Random Users

August 5, 2021 Aug 5, 2021 08/5/21

Martin Strobel

Computer systems are notorious for being able to do many precise operations quickly, but struggling to do things at random. Imagine you want to A/B test two different notifications on a small set of your user base before broadcasting a promotional offer to everyone. How would you choose two random subsets of your users? How would you make sure...