Microsoft 8F65C59CA333 Azure Relay 100 Relay Hours

Measure Azure Relay service usage in units of 100 relay hours. Azure Relay provides a cloud-hosted connection broker for applications and services that must reach resources located behind corporate firewalls, NAT devices, or other private network boundaries. An on-premises listener establishes an outbound connection to Azure Relay, allowing authorized clients to connect through the relay endpoint without requiring a directly reachable inbound service. Microsoft 8F65C59CA333 applies specifically to the relay-hour usage meter rather than to a deployable application, appliance, or endpoint. Relay-hour measurement is relevant where Azure Relay namespaces host active relay listeners and connection availability must be accounted for as part of service consumption. The 100-hour unit gives organizations a defined usage quantity for this Azure Relay metric. Use Azure Relay when an application architecture needs controlled cloud-mediated connectivity to an internal service but cannot expose that service directly to the public internet. Common implementations include administrative services, device communications, legacy application integration, and hybrid workloads that require a listener inside a private network. This item is differentiated by its 100 relay-hour measurement unit, making it applicable to usage tracking for the Azure Relay service.