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Event handlers

In the previous example, we covered event sources. Let's take a similar scenario:

Once more, we have Azure Blob Storage as a publisher, but this time, events are forwarded to both Azure Functions and Azure Event Hub. In that architecture, services presented on the right are event handlers. Here is a list of currently supported services:

• Azure Functions
• Azure Logic Apps
• Azure Automation
• WebHooks
• Azure Queue Storage
• Hybrid Connections
• Azure Event Hubs
• Microsoft Flow

So what actually is an event handler? You can think about it as a processor of an event—based on the configuration, Azure Event Grid will forward events to handlers, ...