Azure IoT News – April 2023 by Think About IoT

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

Week 1-2/4

There isn’t any news for this week.

Week 3-9/4

There isn’t any news for this week.

Week 10-16/4

🔸 You can now use Stream Analytics to process exported data from Application Insights.

Read more here.

🔸 Azure Stream Analytics jobs running on a cluster can connect to an Azure Data Explorer resource/Kusto cluster using managed private endpoints.

Private endpoints protect against data exfiltration and allow your Azure Stream Analytics job to connect securely to resources that are behind a firewall or an Azure Virtual Network (VNet).

Read more here.

Related to Azure IoT News for Week 10-16/4

🔸 Azure Functions Version 4 of the Node.js programming model is now available in preview.

Read more here.

🔸 Improved scaling model for Azure Functions with Target-Based Scaling.

Read more here.

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

These features include the ability to customise your compute instance with applications that do not come pre-bundled in your CI, create a compute instance for another user and configure a compute instance to stop automatically if it is inactive.

Read more here.

🔸 The Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL cluster compute start/stop feature allows completely stop computing on all nodes in a Postgres cluster and pick up later where you left off, saving time and costs.

Read more here.

🔸 Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL REST APIs is now in general availability.

You can now use REST APIs to perform programmatically all cluster management operations such as cluster create, Postgres server parameter change or firewall rule delete.

Read more here.

Week 17-23/4

There isn’t any news for this week.

Week 24-30/4

🔸 Update your IoT Edge devices on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

In June 2023, the OS will be removed from IoT Edge Tier 1 supported platforms.

Read more here.

Related to Azure IoT News for Week 24-30/4

🔸 Synthetic GraphQL is available in all dedicated SKUs for Azure API Management, and is priced per GraphQL operation in the consumption SKU.

Read more here.

🔸 API Management Authorizations are now generally available, providing a simple and reliable way to unbundle and abstract authorizations from web APIs.

Read more here.

🔸 Azure API Management and Microsoft Defender for APIs integration are now in public preview.

Read more here.

🔸 Data encryption with customer-managed keys for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL enables us to bring our key to protect data at rest. It also allows organizations to implement separation of duties in the management of keys and data.

Read more here.

Closing

That’s all folks! 👋

Take care of yourself and have fun! 😊

If you have any questions, please reach out.

You can also be informed about Azure IoT News for March 2023.