Azure IoT News is here for one more month! Let’s take a look at the news of November 2022 together.
Week 1-6/11
🔸 A device update for Azure IoT Hub is now generally available.
This update has the following new functions:
- Automatic group provisioning will automatically create groups of devices.
- Improved troubleshooting features.
- Automatic rollback enables defining a fallback version for your managed devices.
- Azure CLI Support enables the creation and manages Device Update resources, groups, and deployments using command line functions.
- Support for OS platforms such as Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 20.04.
- Support in all Azure Hero regions.
Read more here.
🔸 Azure IoT Hub Service Upgrade is now in general availability.
The architecture of IoT Hub includes a cluster of front-end message-processing servers and software called the IoT Hub gateway.
Read more here.
Week 7-13/11
🔸 Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows (EFLOW) update is here.
Read more here.
This update release contains the following improvements:
- Support for Azure IoT Edge 1.4LTS, which adds:
- Automatic image clean-up of unused Docker images
- Ability to pass a custom JSON payload to DPS on provisioning
- Ability to require all modules in a deployment to be downloaded before the restart
- Use of the TCG TPM2 Software Stack
- CBL-Mariner 2.0 as the virtual machine base operating system
- USB passthrough using USB-Over-IP
- File/Folder sharing between Windows OS and the EFLOW VM
Related to Azure IoT News for Week 7-13/11
🔸 Exporting ISE and consumption Logic Apps to Standard SKU.
Read more here.
🔸 Functions now support .NET 7 in an isolated worker process.
Read more here.
🔸 Intra-account container copy jobs in Azure Cosmos DB SQL and Cassandra API accounts allow the creation of offline copies of containers within your account.
Read more here.
🔸 Retriable writes in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB enable MongoDB drivers to automatically retry certain write operations in case of failure, providing you with more flexibility when developing your applications.
Read more here.
🔸 Azure Machine Learning general available updates are here for November 2022.
These updates contain the following improvements:
- Scheduled auto-shutdown/auto-start for compute instances
- Automate compute instance customization and configuration
- Assess AI systems and make data-driven decisions with the Responsible AI dashboard
- Build computer vision models using AutoML for Images
- Build NLP models with AutoNLP capability
Read more here.
🔸 Azure Machine Learning public preview updates are here for November 2022.
These updates contain the following improvements:
- Enable Delta Support for tabular datasets
- Read AzureML datastore URIs in Pandas/Dask (via fsspec integration)
- Debug & monitor your training jobs
- Configure AzureML Spark to perform data wrangling
Read more here.
Week 14-20/11
Related to Azure IoT News for Week 14-20/11
🔸 Azure Functions can be invoked when a row in a SQL database is created, updated, or deleted through the Azure SQL trigger for Azure Functions, now available in public preview for C# functions.
Read more here.
Week 21-27/11
🔸 Azure IoT Hub now supports the ability to set up an Azure Cosmos DB account as a custom routing endpoint.
With the new release, you can:
- Configure an Azure Cosmos DB account as a custom endpoint within the IoT Hub
- Use Synthetic Partition Keys to auto-generate partition keys based on your business logic
- Create routing rules to send data directly to the defined Azure Cosmos DB endpoint
Read more here.
Week 28-30/11
Related to Azure IoT News for Week 28-30/11
🔸 12 months of free services for new Azure PAYG customers are now in general availability.
Read more here.
🔸 You can now select the latest major version of PostgreSQL 15 in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL for a new cluster.
Read more here.
🔸 Azure Blob Storage integration with Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL is now in general availability.
Read more here.
🔸 Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL now has support for the latest version of Citus 11.1.
Read more here.
🔸 Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL now supports cross-region asynchronous replication of data from one cluster to another cluster.
Read more here.
🔸 Enhanced metrics for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server allows more fine-grained monitoring and alerting on your databases.
Read more here.
Closing
That’s all folks! 👋
Take care of yourself and have fun! 😊
Stay tuned for December’s blog posts and events! 🎄
If you have any questions, please reach out!
You can also be informed about Azure IoT News for October 2022.
