**TL;DR:** 429s come from two different limiters: ARM control-plane (per subscription/tenant) and service data-plane (per resource). The retry strategy differs, and hammering through makes it worse. Serialize, or spread across subscriptions. - Data-plane limits are per-resource. Cache inventory; do not poll. - SDK retry config. azure-core lets you set retry policy (total retries, backoff factor).

## The fix

**TL;DR:** 429s come from two different limiters: ARM control-plane (per subscription/tenant) and service data-plane (per resource). The retry strategy differs, and hammering through makes it worse. Serialize, or spread across subscriptions. - Data-plane limits are per-resource. Cache inventory; do not poll. - SDK retry config. azure-core lets you set retry policy (total retries, backoff factor).

## The fix

1. **Honor Retry-After.** If the response includes it, wait that long. The SDKs with retry policies do this automatically; hand-rolled REST loops usually do not.

2. **Exponential backoff with jitter.** Base 1-2s, double, add random jitter, cap at ~60s. Without jitter, N parallel workers retry in lockstep and re-trigger the throttle.

3. **ARM limits are per-principal per-subscription.** A provisioning script that fans out 50 parallel deployments will throttle. Serialize, or spread across subscriptions.

4. **Data-plane limits are per-resource.** Storage: ~20k ops/sec per account; Cosmos DB: RU/s; Service Bus: messaging units. A 429 here means scale the resource or reduce the request rate, not just retry harder.

5. **Reads throttle too.** `az resource list` in a tight loop across a big estate throttles ARM. Cache inventory; do not poll.

6. **SDK retry config.** azure-core lets you set retry policy (total retries, backoff factor). Defaults are sane; raising max retries without backoff just delays the same failure. Verify: after adding backoff, watch the 429 rate in metrics drop to zero over a few minutes. If 429s persist at low request rates, you are hitting a hard service limit and need a quota/raise or a bigger SKU, not more retries.

## When to use this

- This covers exactly what the title says: Azure 429 throttling.
- You are setting this up for the first time, or auditing an existing setup.
- You want the key gotchas in one place before you start.

## When not to use this

- You are doing a different workflow with Azure; these steps are specific to the title above.
- You need the full reference docs; this is the short path, not the manual.

## Compatibility

- Not pinned to a specific version; follows current Azure behavior.

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