Difference between azure notification hub and azure mobile services

Question

What are the main differences between azure notification hub and mobile services

Which is best to use when.

Thanks

Answer 1

Check the features/pricing of both on the official pages:

• Azure Mobile Services

  Azure Mobile Services provides a scalable cloud backend for building Windows Store, Windows Phone, Apple iOS, Android, and HTML/JavaScript applications. Store data in the cloud, authenticate users, and send push notifications to your application within minutes.

• Azure Notification Hubs

  Azure Notification Hubs provides a highly scalable, cross-platform push notification infrastructure that enables you to either broadcast push notifications to millions of users at once or tailor notifications to individual users. You can use Notification Hubs with any connected mobile application—whether it’s built on Azure Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, Web Sites, or Mobile Services.

Use Azure Mobile Services if you need a server backend for your app, where you store data and implement server side logic. Azure Notification Hubs is included, which you can use for push notifications.

Use only Azure Notification Hubs if you don't need server side data or logic or are already using another service for this and only need a service to send push notifications.