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Azure IoT Central—March 2020 updates

March 2020 feature updates in Azure IoT Central

• Azure IoT Central
• Features

Csharp and Java SDKs for IoT Plug and Play are now in Preview

We have added two more SDK languages to the IoT Plug and Play public preview. You can now develop with the Azure IoT Csharp SDK and the Azure IoT Java SDK, in addition to Azure IoT SDK for Node.js and Azure IoT SDK for C.

• Azure IoT Hub
• Azure IoT Central
• Services

IoT Hub new features now available for device and module twins

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

New Azure IoT Central features available

At IoT Solutions World Congress, we are excited to announce several new Azure IoT Central features designed to help solution builders take their IoT projects from proof of concept to production level.

• Azure IoT Central
• Features

Microsoft Azure available from new cloud regions in Germany

Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Telekom, SAP, and others trust Microsoft for their digital transformations

• Regions & Datacenters

IoT Plug and Play Preview is now available

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

Location telemetry support in IoT Central is now available

We have added support for location telemetry that lights up scenarios such as asset track and trace, connected logistics, and more!

• Azure IoT Central
• Features

IoT Central introduces capabilities for rules and alerts, visualization, personalization & more

IoT Central is introducing new capabilities that are designed to simplify IoT Central for developers and enable integration to a customer’s existing enterprise and line of business solutions by enabling more seamless integration to a customer’s existing enterprise and line of business solutions.

• Azure IoT Central
• Services
• Features

Azure Security Center for IoT in public 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

Azure premium blob storage is now generally available

Target availability: Q1 2019

 Premium blob storage is a new tier of Blob storage (hot, cool, and archive are the existing tiers) ideal for demanding workloads that require high transaction rates or faster and more consistent response times like IOT and telemetry.

• Azure Blob Storage
• Features

Azure IoT Central is now available

Azure IoT Central is now generally available. Built on the Microsoft Cloud, Azure IoT Central is a market differentiated software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution, designed to enable the rapid innovation, design, configuration, and integration of smart products with enterprise-grade systems and applications. Stay ahead of the competition and deliver smart products that delight your customers with a solution that helps to reduce your go-to-market cycle and increases the speed at which you can innovate.

• Azure IoT Central
• Services

Name changes: Microsoft IoT Central

Effective May 1, 2018, Microsoft IoT Central will be renamed “IoT Central.” These changes won’t affect pricing or resource GUID.

Azure IoT Central

Azure IoT Central is a fully managed SaaS offering for customers and partners that enables powerful IoT scenarios without requiring cloud solution expertise.

• Features