Microsoft Azure · Rate Limits

Microsoft Azure Rate Limits

Microsoft Azure rate limits are per-service. Each service publishes its own quotas and request rate limits.

2 Limits Throttle: 429
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Limits

Per-service quotas account/region/service
varies
see service-specific quotas page
Most services have account-level + per-region quotas + soft/hard limits.
Throttling account/region/service
varies
service-specific TPS / RPM
Backoff with exponential retry per AWS/GCP/Azure SDK best practices.

Policies

Soft vs hard limits
Soft limits can be raised via support tickets; hard limits cannot.
Exponential backoff
Standard SDK retry behavior with jitter.
Per-region scoping
Most quotas are per-region per-service per-account.

Sources