Azure IoT News is here for one more month! Let’s take a look at the news of June 2022 together.
Week 1-6/6
There isn’t any news for this week.
Week 6-12/6
Related to Azure IoT News for Week 6-12/6
🔸 The 16 MB document limit in the Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB provides developers the flexibility to store more data per document.
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🔸 The Azure Cosmos DB Linux emulator with API for MongoDB support provides a local environment that emulates the Azure Cosmos DB service for development purposes on Linux and macOS.
Read more here.
🔸 Azure Cosmos DB serverless allows you to leverage your Azure Cosmos DB account in a consumption-based fashion, where you’re only charged for the Request Units consumed by your database operations and the storage consumed by your data.
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🔸 Reusable policy fragments help API administrators to control common policy snippets.
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🔸 API management authorizations is a new capability that makes it easier to manage access tokens when sending requests to APIs based on OAuth 2.0 standard.
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🔸 Microsoft Graph API integration with Azure Event Grid is now available in public preview.
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🔸 Azure Functions now supports developing and editing applications, running on Linux, to be created and edited within the Azure portal.
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Week 13-19/6
There isn’t any news for this week.
Week 20-26/6
🔸 You can now, update properties for devices without models in Azure IoT Central.
With this feature, once the devices are cloud-connected, you can:
- view and update properties without having to first create device templates
- build and test your devices and iteratively create device models
- enable low friction first-run experience for device onboarding.
Read more here.
🔸 The Embedded Wireless Framework enables you to reuse application code across all of your different products leveraging IoT by defining a common set of APIs for various wireless interfaces used in IoT.
The Wireless Framework is:
- An efficient and flexible abstraction interface for wireless modules
- Independent of any single microcontroller (MCU) vendor
Read more here.
🔸 Microsoft and STMicroelectronics have jointly developed a security platform to enable ST’s ultra-low-power STM32U5 microcontrollers (MCUs) to connect securely to Azure IoT cloud services.
The solution uses the STM32U5’s state-of-the-art security hardware, ARM TrustZone®, along with Trusted Firmware-M (TF-M) and a STSAFE-A110 Secure Element.
The solution is powered by Microsoft Azure RTOS and Azure IoT Middleware, leveraging services including Microsoft Defender for IoT, Azure IoT Device Provisioning Service, and Device Update for IoT Hub.
Read more here.
🔸 Windows IoT on Arm64 is now generally available.
Windows IoT on Arm64 brings the following functionality to devices:
- Arm64 support on NXP I.MX8 for Windows 10 IoT Enterprise
- Lower-cost devices with lower power consumption to device builders
Read more here.
Related to Azure IoT News for Week 20-26/6
🔸 Durable Functions, an extension to Azure Functions that lets you define stateful serverless workflows in code, now supports Java.
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🔸 Durable Functions for Node.js is now available.
Read more here.
🔸 Azure API Management support for Content Security Policy is now generally available for both the developer portal and the self-hosted portal.
Read more here.
🔸 The self-hosted gateway feature expands API Management support for hybrid and multi-cloud environments and helps you efficiently and securely manage APIs hosted on-premises and across clouds from a single API Management service in Azure.
Read more here.
🔸 Azure Functions support for Python 3.10.
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🔸 New API backend options in Azure Static Web Apps.
Read more here.
🔸 Try Azure Cosmos DB for a free experience.
Read more here.
🔸 Azure Cosmos DB Core (SQL) API Query Engine improvements.
Read more here.
🔸 Azure Cosmos DB SQL API Go SDK improvements.
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🔸 Continuous backup enhancements in Azure Cosmos DB.
Read more here.
🔸 Azure Data Studio MongoDB extension for Azure Cosmos DB.
Read more here.
🔸 Azure Machine Learning announcements for June 2022.
Week 27-30/6
🔸 Export device data under an organization in Azure IoT Central.
You can now apply a filter to limit exporting device data including telemetry, property changes, and device events from devices under an organization in your Azure IoT Central data exports.
Read more here.
🔸 MATCH clause for Query is now in general availability.
The MATCH clause is a query offering that allows you to specify which pattern should be followed while traversing relationships in the Azure Digital Twins graph.
Read more here.
🔸 Resize rows in Azure IoT Central device raw data view is now generally available.
With this update, you can now analyse more of your data at once in Azure IoT Central by changing the height of a row when viewing a device’s raw data.
This change makes it easier to view more data points in a single pane of glass without having to switch to a separate text viewer.
Read more here.
🔸 2022-05-31 Azure IoT Central REST API release.
There is now support for a series of endpoints that were previously available under our preview releases.
Read more here.
Closing
That’s all folks! 👋
Take care of yourself! 🙂
If you have any questions, please reach out!
P.S. This article will be updated every week for this month, so don’t forget to check it again when June will come to an end.
You can also be informed about Azure IoT News for May 2022.
