Azure IoT News – March 2023 by Think About IoT

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

Week 1-5/3

Related to Azure IoT News for Week 1-5/3

🔸 Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL now supports 4 TiB, 8 TiB, and 16 TiB storage on the coordinator and worker nodes in multi-node configurations.

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🔸 The new 1-vCore with 2 GiB RAM and 2-vCore with 4 GiB RAM burstable compute options in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL provide the flexibility to start small and grow big as your Postgres workload requirements increase.

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Week 6-12/3

🔸 The meta-iotedge layer now contains Kirkstone-compatible recipes to build the latest 1.4 LTS release of IoT Edge.

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Week 13-19/3

🔸 The Azure Digital Twins Data history now supports historizing twin property updates, twin lifecycle events, and relationship lifecycle events.

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Related to Azure IoT News for Week 13-19/3

🔸 You can now access Azure Machine Learning’s high-service capabilities to accelerate the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle in the UK West region.

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🔸 Azure Machine Learning‘s new feature is now available in Public Preview.

It includes the ability to:

  • gain insight and receive troubleshooting documentation on failed environment builds
  • view and edit pipeline inputs & outputs before submitting a pipeline job
  • speed up the checkpoint-saving process
  • shorten the end-to-end training phase of large-scale distributed PyTorch models

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🔸 You can now change data capture for Azure Cosmos DB analytical store.

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🔸 Data API builder instantly creates modern REST and GraphQL endpoints for modern databases.

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🔸 Azure Durable Functions support of managed identity for Azure Storage is now generally available.

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🔸 Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials is now available and is a Microsoft-supported lightweight Kubernetes distribution that is fine-tuned to run on edge devices with constrained resources.

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🔸 New features are now available in general availability for Azure Machine Learning.

These features include the ability to visualize time series models accurately over time, and deploy a compute cluster or compute instance without any public IP addresses.

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Week 20-26/3

🔸 Indoor maps onboarding and new Features API improvements in Azure Maps Creator.

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🔸 The Azure Maps Elevation services and Render V2 DEM tiles’ general availability will be retired on 5 May 2023.

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Related to Azure IoT News for Week 20-26/3

🔸 Workspaces for Azure API Management is now in public preview.

This new update enables granular access control in multi-team Azure API Management deployments.

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🔸 Azure Private Link support for inbound traffic in Azure API Management.

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Week 27-31/3

🔸 Azure Maps joins several other Azure services with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act compliance.

This feature enables healthcare and health insurance providers to use mapping and geospatial services in even more solutions while ensuring that protected health information (PHI) is managed appropriately.

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Related to Azure IoT News for Week 27-31/3

🔸 Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore offers an integrated, performant and cost-efficient fully managed database for your MongoDB workloads.

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🔸 On 31 March 2024, the Azure SQL Server connector’s V1 actions and triggers on Logic Apps will be retired.

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Closing

That’s all folks! 👋

Take care of yourself and have fun! 😊

If you have any questions, please reach out.

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