title: How are brokered connections counted?
body: <p>Looking at Azure Service Bus to replace some unreliable RabbitMQ servers and the one thing that isn't clear about the pricing is what <em>exactly</em> do they count as a "Brokered connection" for billing purposes?</p>
  
  <p>We have about a dozen machines that are processing messages off over 1,000 queues (and one machine populating the queue), so does 1 application running on 1 machine count as one brokered connection (regardless of how many queues it's listening to)? Or would each machine count as 1,000+ brokered connections (which could add up <em>very</em> quickly)?</p>
  
  <p>So let's say I did something like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>var queues = queueNames.Select(q =&gt;
  {
      if (!manager.QueueExists(q))
      {
          manager.CreateQueue(q);
      }
      return new QueueClient(ServiceBusConnectionString, q);
  }).ToArray();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Add <code>queueNames</code> is an array of, let's say, 10 strings. Is that 10 brokered connections? 1 ? Or something else?</p>