Azure IoT Hub VS Hologram.io

Sure MS has a product. It's more expensive and harder to use, though...Azure IOT hub - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/iot-hub. Source: 11 months ago

Azure IoT Hub is a managed cloud service which provides bi-directional communication between the cloud and IoT devices. It is a platform as a service for building IoT solutions. Being an azure offering, it has security and scalability built-in as well as making it easy to integrate with other Azure services. - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago

I am currently working on an IoT Project for my Bachelor's thesis. The goal is to gather data from an existing machine and send it to an Azure cloud via AMQP. To do this I have set up an IoT Hub and will be using the Azure IoT Edge runntime to connect and send the Data. For initial development, I have authenticated my devices to the cloud using symmetric keys generated by the IoT hub. Now I want to switch to... Source: over 2 years ago

OVMS is a not cheap module. It comes with a hologram.io SIM card, but you can use any data-only LTE plan. Cost for the module is over $250, and then you'll have to pay somewhere south of $5/mo for a data plan if you go with hologram.io. Source: about 1 year ago

An LTE plan from hologram.io is a few bucks a month... And I'd gladly pay it and not give my money to OnStar's broken stuff :-). Source: over 1 year ago