Heather Tian, Author at Azure Notification Hubs Blog

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Announcing Public Preview of Web Push Notifications with Azure Notification Hubs

September 26th, 2023

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 11th, 2023

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 25th, 2023

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

July 31st, 2023

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 Feb 1, 2024 and will need to be migrated by June 2024. To migrate from FCM legacy to FCM v1, please follow these steps: Migrate ...

New high availability features for Azure Notification Hubs (Preview)

July 19th, 2023

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 6th, 2023

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...