Merge pull request #2066 from influxdata/Jan-2021-Cloud-updates

Jan 2021 cloud updates

content/influxdb/cloud/reference/release-notes/cloud-updates.md

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 ---
-title: InfluxDB Cloud monthly updates
+title: InfluxDB Cloud updates
 description: Important changes and what's new in each InfluxDB Cloud update.
 weight: 101
 menu:
   influxdb_cloud_ref:
     parent: Release notes
-    name: Monthly updates
+    name: InfluxDB Cloud updates
 aliases:
   - /cloud/about/release-notes
   - /influxdb/cloud/reference/release-notes/influxdb-cloud
 ---
 
-InfluxDB Cloud updates occur frequently. Find a compilation of monthly updates below.
+InfluxDB Cloud updates occur frequently. Find a compilation of recent updates below.
+
+## January 2021
+
+- [New AWS and Microsoft regions](#aws-and-microsoft-regions)
+- [Microsoft social sign-on](#microsoft-social-sign-on)
+- [Flux updates](#flux-updates)
+- [InfluxDB community templates](#influxdb-community-templates)
+- [Load Data updates](#load-data-updates)
+- [Visualization updates](#visualization-updates)
+- [CLI updates](#cli-updates)
+- [API updates](#api-updates)
+- [Task updates](#task-updates)
+
+### AWS and Microsoft regions
+
+- Add support for Microsoft Azure and new AWS regions:
+  - [Microsoft Azure](/influxdb/cloud/reference/regions/#microsoft-azure):
+    - West Europe (Amsterdam) region
+    - East US (Virginia) region
+  - [AWS](/influxdb/cloud/reference/regions/#amazon-web-services-aws):
+    - US East (Virginia) region
+
+### Microsoft social sign-on
+
+- Add [Microsoft (Windows Live) social sign-on](https://cloud2.influxdata.com/signup). Use your Windows Live credentials to easily sign in to your InfluxDB Cloud account.
+
+### Flux updates
+
+- Update to [Flux v0.100.0](/influxdb/cloud/reference/release-notes/flux/#v0-100-0-2021-01-07).
+
+### InfluxDB community templates
+
+- Access any [InfluxDB community template](https://github.com/influxdata/community-templates#templates) directly in the Cloud user interface (UI). For more details, see how to [install and customize a template in the UI](/influxdb/cloud/influxdb-templates/cloud/).
+
+- Use the new [InfluxDB 2 Operational Monitoring community template](https://github.com/influxdata/community-templates/tree/master/influxdb2_operational_monitoring) to monitor InfluxDB OSS 2.0.
+
+### Load Data updates
+
+  - Redesign the Load Data page to increase discovery and ease of use. Now, you can [load data from sources directly in the InfluxDB user interface](/influxdb/cloud/write-data/load-data/).
+  - Add support for new data sources:
+    - InfluxDB v2 Listener
+    - NSD
+    - OPC-UA
+    - Windows Event Log
+
+### Visualization updates
+
+  - Add new [Band Plot visualization](/influxdb/v2.0/visualize-data/visualization-types/band/).
+  - Add the `legendColorizeRows` property to toggle the color on and off in the legend.
+
+### CLI updates
+
+- Usability improvements to `influx` CLI:
+  - Add option to print raw query results in [`influx query`](/influxdb/cloud/reference/cli/influx/query/).
+  - Add ability to export resources by name using [`influx export`](/influxdb/cloud/reference/cli/influx/export/).
+  - Add new processing options and enhancements to [`influx write`](/influxdb/cloud/reference/cli/influx/write/).
+  - Add `--active-config` flag to [`influx`](/influxdb/cloud/reference/cli/influx/) commands to set the configuration for a single command.
+  - Add `max-line-length` flag to the [`influx write`](/influxdb/cloud/reference/cli/influx/write/) command to address "token too long" errors for large inputs.
+  - Add `--force` flag to the [`influx stacks rm`](/influxdb/cloud/reference/cli/influx/stacks/remove/) command, which lets you remove a stack without the confirmation prompt.
+  - Allow password to be specified as a CLI option in [`influx v1 auth create`](/influxdb/cloud/reference/cli/influx/v1/auth/create/#flags).
+  - Allow password to be specified as a CLI option in [`influx v1 auth set-password`](/influxdb/cloud/reference/cli/influx/v1/auth/set-password/).
+  - Improve ID-related error messages for [`influx v1 dbrp`] commands.
+
+### API updates
+
+- [List all buckets](/influxdb/cloud/api/#operation/GetBuckets) in the API now supports the `after` parameter as an alternative to `offset`.
+- Add the `v1/authorization` package to support authorizing requests to the InfluxDB 1.x API.
+
+### Task updates
+
+- Record the last success and failure run times in tasks.
+- Inject the task option `latestSuccessTime` in Flux Extern.
 
 ## 2020-9-25
 

content/influxdb/cloud/write-data/_index.md

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   - /influxdb/cloud/reference/cli/influx/write
 ---
 
-Collect and write time series data to InfluxDB Cloud and InfluxDB OSS. Discover how to quickly start collecting data, and then explore other ways to write data using no-code solutions or developer tools.
+Discover what you'll need to write data into InfluxDB OSS (open source). Learn how to quickly start collecting data, and then explore ways to write data, best practices, and what we recommend if you're migrating a large amount of historical data.
-
 
 - [What you'll need](#what-youll-need)
 - [Quickly start collecting data](#quickly-start-collecting-data)
   - [Demo data for InfluxDB Cloud](#demo-data-for-influxdb-cloud)
   - [Sample data](#sample-data)
-- [Other ways to write data](#other-ways-to-write-data)
+- [Load data from sources in the InfluxDB UI](/influxdb/v2.0/write-data/load-data/)
+- [Use no-code solutions](/influxdb/v2.0/write-data/no-code)
+- [Use developer tools](/influxdb/v2.0/write-data/developer-tools)
+- [Best practices for writing data](/influxdb/v2.0/write-data/best-practices/)
 - [Next steps](#next-steps)
 
 ### What you'll need

content/influxdb/cloud/write-data/load-data.md

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+---
+title: Load data from sources in the InfluxDB user interface (UI)
+seotitle: Load data source in UI
+list_title: Load data source in UI
+weight: 105
+description: >
+  Load data from sources in the InfluxDB user interface (UI). Choose from popular client libraries (such as Python, Ruby, Scala, and more!) or load data with a Telegraf plugin (like MQTT Consumer, MySQL, File, and many more!).
+menu:
+  influxdb_cloud:
+    name: Load data source in UI
+    parent: Write data
+---
+
+{{< duplicate-oss >}}