Scaling your IoT Hub solution
When rapid expansion in less time is the need for a business, a truly scalable system helps to grow the company by rolling out updates as needed, at a time or speed that helps the organization. Microsoft Azure provides scalability for all services, and it is also implemented with the IoT Hub. The need for scalability depends upon the performance characteristics that your IoT solution needs. A single IoT Hub unit can connect with millions of IoT devices. But based on the need, we can define more IoT Hub units and scale the solutions.
Getting ready
In this recipe, we will look for ways of scaling your IoT solutions, which you can implement after you identify their needs.
How to do it...
Lets scale the IoT Hub:
- Log in to the Azure portal and navigate to the IoT Hub service.
- Select the IoT Hub that you want to scale:

- Select the pricing tier, which is sufficient for your IoT solution to scale vertically:

- You can change the IoT Hub units to scale horizontally by using different...