Azure Queue Storage

Azure Queue Storage is a Microsoft cloud service for storing large numbers of messages, enabling decoupled and asynchronous communication between application components. Messages can be accessed via authenticated HTTP/HTTPS calls and support visibility timeouts, peeking, and metadata for reliable processing.

Azure Queue Storage publishes 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Queues API, Message API, Message ID API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Asynchronous Processing, Cloud Storage, Messaging, Queues, and Storage.

The Azure Queue Storage catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Azure Queue Storage’s developer surface includes engineering blog, CLI, changelog, authentication, developer portal, pricing, documentation, and 35 more developer resources.

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58.3/100 strong ▲ 15.5 Agent 24/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 2 Agent Skills

Asynchronous ProcessingCloud Storage Messaging Queues Storage

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Composite quality — 58.3/100 · strong

Contract Quality 10.5 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 9.6 / 15

Access Clarity 7.1 / 15

Operational Transparency 7.2 / 10

Contract Governance 2.0 / 9

Discoverability 5.6 / 8

Regulatory Posture 5.3 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 24/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 56.0 — up to +11.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 47.4 — up to +10.5 composite points
Contract Governance scores 22.0 — up to +9.4 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Azure Queue Storage Queues API

Queues operations

Azure Queue Storage Message API

The message API from Azure Queue Storage — 2 operation(s) for message.

Azure Queue Storage Message ID API

The messageId API from Azure Queue Storage — 1 operation(s) for messageid.

Azure Queue Storage Queue API

The queue API from Azure Queue Storage — 3 operation(s) for queue.

Azure Queue Storage Service API

The service API from Azure Queue Storage — 5 operation(s) for service.

Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Azure Queue Storage REST Queues API

OPEN COLLECTION

Azure Queue Storage REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

Agent Skills 2

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

manage-queues

AGENT SKILL

send-and-process-messages

AGENT SKILL

Azure Queue Storage API pricing

Rate limits

Maximum request rate per storage account: 20,000 messages per second, which assumes a 1-KiB message size
Target throughput for a single queue (1-KiB messages): Up to 2,000 messages per second

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Microsoft Azure Queue Storage Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Microsoft Azure Queue Storage Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Microsoft Azure Queue Storage Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Microsoft Azure Queue Storage Context

18 classes · 46 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Azure Queue Storage API Rules

40 rules · 35 errors 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 6

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

DequeuedMessagesList

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

KeyInfo

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListQueuesSegmentResponse

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PeekedMessagesList

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StorageServiceProperties

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UserDelegationKey

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Microsoft Azure Queue Storage Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Microsoft Azure Queue Storage Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Microsoft Azure Queue Storage Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Microsoft Azure Queue Storage Trust Center

GDPR

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Microsoft Azure Queue Storage Agentic Access

7 operations · 4 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 9

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

JSONLD

Vocabulary

DataModel

Conventions

Lifecycle

ErrorCatalog

ErrorCatalog

Conformance

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Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

CLI

CLI

Packages

Packages

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 7

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Compliance

SecurityTxt

Security

TrustCenter

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

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Operate 5

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Deprecation

ChangeLog

RateLimits

StatusPage

Support

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Leadership

Leadership

Source (apis.yml)

aid: microsoft-azure-queue-storage
url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/queues/
name: Azure Queue Storage
description: Azure Queue Storage is a Microsoft cloud service for storing large numbers of messages, enabling decoupled and
  asynchronous communication between application components. Messages can be accessed via authenticated HTTP/HTTPS calls and
  support visibility timeouts, peeking, and metadata for reliable processing.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/microsoft-azure-queue-storage.png
tags:
- Asynchronous Processing
- Cloud Storage
- Messaging
- Queues
- Storage
tags_raw:
- Asynchronous Processing
- Cloud Storage
- Messaging
- Queue
- Storage
created: '2026-03-13'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
common:
- type: Blog
  url: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/category/azure/blog/analyticsonazure
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-rules.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-vocabulary.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-data-model.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-cli.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-conventions.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/trust-center
- type: Deprecation
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/previous-azure-storage-service-versions
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-lifecycle.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-error-codes.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-llms.txt
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-vendors.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-packages.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://www.microsoft.com/security
- type: Leadership
  url: https://news.microsoft.com/leadership
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/changelog
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-finops.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.microsoft.com/
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Azure
- type: Portal
  url: https://portal.azure.com/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/queues/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/queues/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/queues/storage-quickstart-queues-portal
- type: SDKs
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-introduction
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement
- type: Support
  url: https://support.microsoft.com/
apis:
- aid: microsoft-azure-queue-storage:microsoft-azure-queue-storage-queues-api
  name: Azure Queue Storage Queues API
  description: Queues operations
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/queue-service-rest-api
  baseURL: https://{account}.queue.core.windows.net/
  tags:
  - Queues
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-queues-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    name: OpenAPI (provider-hosted)
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/main/specification/storage/data-plane/QueueStorage/stable/2026-04-06/queue.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/queue-service-rest-api
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/authorize-requests-to-azure-storage
  - type: Versioning
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/versioning-for-the-azure-storage-services
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-user-delegation-key-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-list-queues-segment-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-storage-service-properties-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-key-info-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-dequeued-messages-list-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-peeked-messages-list-schema.json
- aid: microsoft-azure-queue-storage:microsoft-azure-queue-storage-message-api
  name: Azure Queue Storage Message API
  description: The message API from Azure Queue Storage — 2 operation(s) for message.
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/queue-service-rest-api
  baseURL: https://{account}.queue.core.windows.net/
  tags:
  - Message
  tags_raw:
  - message
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-message-api-openapi.yml
- aid: microsoft-azure-queue-storage:microsoft-azure-queue-storage-messageid-api
  name: Azure Queue Storage Message ID API
  description: The messageId API from Azure Queue Storage — 1 operation(s) for messageid.
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/queue-service-rest-api
  baseURL: https://{account}.queue.core.windows.net/
  tags:
  - messageId
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-messageid-api-openapi.yml
- aid: microsoft-azure-queue-storage:microsoft-azure-queue-storage-queue-api
  name: Azure Queue Storage Queue API
  description: The queue API from Azure Queue Storage — 3 operation(s) for queue.
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/queue-service-rest-api
  baseURL: https://{account}.queue.core.windows.net/
  tags:
  - Queues
  tags_raw:
  - queue
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-queue-api-openapi.yml
- aid: microsoft-azure-queue-storage:microsoft-azure-queue-storage-service-api
  name: Azure Queue Storage Service API
  description: The service API from Azure Queue Storage — 5 operation(s) for service.
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/queue-service-rest-api
  baseURL: https://{account}.queue.core.windows.net/
  tags:
  - Services
  tags_raw:
  - service
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/microsoft-azure-queue-storage-service-api-openapi.yml
x-parent: microsoft-azure
x-relationship: product
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-04'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 9
  pass: local-v6

Azure Queue Storage API — frequently asked questions

Does Azure Queue Storage have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Azure Queue Storage, including Azure Queue Storage Queues API, Azure Queue Storage Message API and Azure Queue Storage Message ID API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Azure Queue Storage API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for Azure Queue Storage, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Azure Queue Storage API?

Azure Queue Storage uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Microsoft Azure Queue Storage Authentication.

Is the Azure Queue Storage API ready for AI agents?

Azure Queue Storage has a Kin Score of 58.3 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 24.3 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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