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November 2019

27 Nov

Device telemetry events from IoT Hub to Event Grid

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure IoT Hub integrates with Azure Event Grid so that you can send event notifications to other services and trigger downstream processes. workflows

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Features
27 Nov

IoT Hub message routing to Azure Data Lake StoreGen2 is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

IoT Hub message routing to Data Lake StoreGen2 is now available

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Features
27 Nov

IoT Hub message enrichment is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

IoT Hub message enrichment adds the ability to stamp messages with rich information before they’re sent, simplifying downstream processing and accelerating customer insights.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Features
19 Nov

IoT Hub new features now available for device and module twins

NOW AVAILABLE

Announcing several feature improvements for Azure IoT Hub device and module twins, namely the support for deep property nesting, and increases to the twin document max size and key/value lengths.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Services

October 2019

24 Oct

IoT Hub device streams new preview regions

IN PREVIEW

IoT Hub device streams is now also available in North Europe and Southeast Asia in preview

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services

August 2019

21 Aug

Azure IoT Hub manual failover now available

NOW AVAILABLE

This feature is part of IoT Hub cloud service and allows customers to failover an IoT hub instance from its primary Azure region to its corresponding geo-paired region.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Services
  • Features
21 Aug

IoT Plug and Play Preview is now available

IN PREVIEW

With IoT Plug and Play Preview, solution developers can start using Azure IoT Central to build solutions that integrate seamlessly with IoT devices enabled with IoT Plug and Play.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Azure IoT Central
  • Open Source

July 2019

29 Jul

Azure Security Center for IoT now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Security Center allows you to protect your end-to-end IoT deployment with threat protection that identifies emerging threats and provides you with steps for remediation.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Security

May 2019

29 May

IoT Hub device telemetry events in Event Grid - public preview

IN PREVIEW

IoT Hub expands its capabilities as an event source in Event Grid by enabling subscribing to device telemetry events.

  • Event Grid
  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Services
  • Features
6 May

IoT Plug and Play announcement at Build

IN PREVIEW

Today we’re announcing IoT Plug and Play, which is based on an open modeling language that allows developers to connect IoT devices to the cloud without having to write any code.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features

April 2019

5 Apr

Set custom metadata properties for Stream Analytics output

NOW AVAILABLE

Stream Analytics now allows users to attach query columns as user properties to outgoing messages to helps better facilitate downstream processing and reporting etc.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Event Hubs
  • Features
3 Apr

Azure Security Center for IoT in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure is now the first major public cloud with end-to-end security for IoT for your devices, hubs and cloud resources. We are adding advanced threat protection for IoT to three key services: Azure Security Center, Azure Sentinel and Azure IoT Hub.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Azure Sphere
  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Microsoft Sentinel
  • Security

March 2019

25 Mar

IoT Hub supports new Azure Monitor metric alerts

NOW AVAILABLE

Announcing the new Azure Monitor metric alerts in IoT Hub. These new metric alerts are faster and more flexible than the older classic alerts, and they're also easier to set up.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Azure Monitor
  • Retirements
  • Features

September 2018

26 Sep

Stream Analytics: Query extensibility with C# UDF on Azure IoT Edge

IN PREVIEW

Developers who create Stream Analytics modules for Azure IoT Edge can now write custom C# functions and invoke them right in the query through user-defined functions.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Features
24 Sep

Azure IoT Hub—New message routing capability available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure IoT Hub message routing simplifies IoT solution development and enables you to send messages from your devices to cloud services in an automated, scalable, and reliable manner. Use routing queries to apply customized filters and send only the most relevant data to the service facing endpoints.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Services
20 Sep

General availability: Event Hubs for Node.js

NOW AVAILABLE

Version 1.0 of the Azure Event Hubs package for Node.js is now generally available.

  • Event Hubs
  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Azure Monitor
  • Services
  • SDK and Tools
6 Sep

Announcing general availability of Azure IoT Hub integration with Azure Event Grid

NOW AVAILABLE

The integration will simplify the architecture and development of IoT applications.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Event Grid
  • Services

July 2018

16 Jul

Batch services and advanced routing services for Azure Maps

IN PREVIEW

New features and batch services are available for Azure Maps. They support the needs of large-scale enterprises with high volumes of concurrent users, along with users who need advanced functionality.

  • Mobile Services
  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Internet of Things
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features
16 Jul

New in Azure Maps: API, map control modules, imagery, and styling features

NOW AVAILABLE

New features are available for Azure Maps customers.

  • App Service
  • Mobile Services
  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Internet of Things
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features

December 2016

13 Dec

General availability: Azure IoT Gateway SDK

NOW AVAILABLE

With the general availability of the Azure IoT Gateway SDK, developers can create on-premises gateways that allow their IoT solutions to do more.

  • Azure IoT Hub

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