Azure IoT News – February 2023 by Think About IoT

Azure IoT News is here for one more month! Let’s take a look at the news of ✨ February ✨ 2023 together.

Week 1-5/2

🔸 Azure Digital Twins now supports system-assigned and user-assigned managed identities for authenticating to supported endpoints for routing digital twin events.

Read more here.

🔸 Starting on 2 May 2023, Azure Digital Twins control plane API 2020-03-01-preview will be retired.

Before that date, please migrate to the latest generally available stable API version (2022-10-31), which provides more capabilities including time-series database connections and managed identity.

Read more here.

🔸 Starting on 2 May 2023, Azure Digital Twins control plane API 2021-06-30-preview will be retired.

Before that date, please migrate to the latest GA stable API version (2022-10-31) which additionally introduces user-assigned managed identities.

Read more here.

Related to Azure IoT News for Week 1-5/2

🔸 Azure Durable Functions support for the new storage providers, Netherite and Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL), is now generally available.

Read more here.

Week 6-12/2

🔸 Azure Sphere OS version 23.02 is now available for evaluation in the Retail Eval feed.

Areas of special focus for compatibility testing with 23.02 should include apps and functionality utilizing: 

  • Wired ethernet networking 
  • Wiznet’s W5500 wired ethernet NIC 
  • Network configurations

Read more here.

Week 13-19/2

🔸 Azure Digital Twins connector for Microsoft Power Platform is here.

Azure Digital Twins (ADT) connector for Microsoft Power Platform enables you to incorporate Azure Digital Twins into Microsoft Power Automate flows, Power Apps applications or Azure Logic Apps flows.

Read more here.

🔸 Azure Digital Twins now offers a new way of ingesting data through Import Jobs API.

Read more here.

🔸 Azure Digital Twins now allows up to 50K relationships per twin.

Read more here.

Related to Azure IoT News for Week 13-19/2

🔸 You can now develop functions using Python 3.10 locally and deploy them to all Azure Functions plans.

Read more here.

🔸 Azure Functions triggers and bindings enable function authors to integrate events and data sources easily.

Read more here.

🔸 Durable Functions‘ support for .NET 7.0 running in the isolated worker process is now generally available.

Read more here.

🔸 Availability zones for Azure Functions are now available in the Norway East, South Africa North, Switzerland North, and UAE North regions on both Premium (Elastic Premium) and Dedicated (App Service) plans.

Read more here.

🔸 Azure Functions Linux Elastic Premium plan increased maximum scale-out limits.

Read more here.

Week 20-26/2

🔸 Azure IoT Edge‘s set of Tier 1 operating systems has been expanded to include Ubuntu Server 22.04 on AMD64 and ARM64.

Read more here.

🔸 Azure Sphere OS version 23.02 is now available in the Retail feed.

Read more here.

Related to Azure IoT News for Week 20-26/2

🔸 Azure Managed Lustre is a managed, pay-as-you-go file system purpose-built for high-performance computing (HPC) and AI workloads and it’s now in public preview.

Read more here.

🔸 Stream Analytics no-code editor updates are here in general availability.

Read more here.

Week 27-28/2

There isn’t any news for this week.

Closing

That’s all folks! 👋

Take care of yourself and have fun! 😊

If you have any questions, please reach out.

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