cloud stream processing: Azure Event Hubs, AWS Kinesis

Azure Event Hubs and Amazon Kinesis Side by Side – Blend Master

Azure Event Hubs vs AWS Kinesis | Ryan McIntyre

An Introduction to stream processing systems: Kafka, AWS Kinesis and Azure Event Hubs - Container Solutions


Event Hubs - Cloud big data solutions | Microsoft Azure
"Azure Event Hubs is a hyper-scale telemetry ingestion service that collects, transforms, and stores millions of events."

Amazon Kinesis – Amazon Web Services (AWS)
"Easily collect, process, and analyze real-time, streaming data."

Azure and AWS: Feature for Feature

AWS re:Invent 2015 | (ARC310) Amazon.com's Catalog Contention and Cost with Amazon Kinesis - YouTube
Tim Griffith | LinkedIn


some alternatives:

Queue storage | Microsoft Azure

Azure Storage queues and Service Bus queues - compared and contrasted | Microsoft Docs

Amazon Simple Workflow Service - Cloud Workflow Development - AWS

lorempixel: free placeholder images

lorempixel - placeholder images for every case

"Placeholder Images for every case. Webdesign or Print. It's simple and absolutely free! Just put the custom url in your code like this: [img src="http://lorempixel.com/400/200" /]
to get your FPO / dummy image."

link from: 

The More You Know with Paul Thurrott - MS Dev Show Podcast