Azure IoT Hub & IoT Certified Device

Azure IoT hub has been released on Azure conference 2015 (End of September) to public and it has its own advantage compare to earlier azure IoT services such as Eventhub and service bus. It is capable of receiving Device to Cloud messages (Telemetry message, feedback) as well as sending Cloud to device messages (Sending commands to the devices). It allows us to manage, control and connect huge number of devices based on the pricing tier and supports HTTP, AMQP and MQTT (through protocol gateway) protocols to access from devices. SDKs are available for multiple platform such as windows, Linux and some RTOS and also supports multiple languages such as C,.Net, Java and Node.js.
Please see the below link to know more ...
http://www.e-consystems.com/blog/windowsce/?p=1615