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Azure HDInsight now enables you to customise Azure SQL Database for Ambari
A new Azure HDInsight capability enables you to customise and upgrade your Azure SQL Database for Apache Ambari during cluster creation.
Azure HDInsight – Restrict outbound network traffic clusters by using Firewall
Target availability: Q4 2019
The integration of Azure HDInsight and Azure Firewall, in order to restrict outbound traffic from the cluster to unauthorised destinations, is now generally available.
September 2019
Azure HDInsight G-series VMs deprecation – Migrate before 31 October 2019
Target retirement date: October 31, 2019
Azure HDInsight will deprecate G-series virtual machines (VMs) on 31 October 2019. After this date, you won’t be able to create any new clusters using G-series VMs or to scale up clusters having G-series nodes.
Azure CLI support for Azure HDInsight is now available
Azure CLI support for Azure HDInsight is now generally available. This enables administrators to easily manage their HDInsight clusters using simple Azure CLI commands.
July 2019
Apache Spark 2.4 and Apache Kafka 2.1 support on Azure HDInsight
Azure HDInsight now supports Apache Spark 2.4 and Apache Kafka 2.1. You can choose the Spark or the Kafka version that you want during cluster creation in the Azure portal. Both updates come with several new features, hundreds of bug fixes and improvements.
June 2019
Security Advisory: Patching Azure HDInsight clusters to address Linux Kernel TCP vulnerabilities
Azure HDInsight has updated against the vulnerabilities that affect the Linux kernel.
HDInsight Tools for VSCode: Enhanced PySpark Interactive Query
We are pleased to announce the integration of VSCode Python extension to handle PySpark interactive for HDInsight in VSCode. The Azure HDInsight Tools for VSCode leverages the Python extension to…
HDInsight Tools for VSCode: Hive table preview
HDInsight for VSCode continues to boost the experience of Hive users with self-service exploratory capabilities. The HDInsight explorer in VSCode not only empowers you to browse Hive databases across…
May 2019
Corrected billing for Azure SQL Data Warehouse and other Azure services
We’ve corrected billing for Azure SQL Data Warehouse and other Azure services that affected EA customers only.
HBase accelerated writes in Azure HDInsight is now in preview
HBase accelerated writes significantly improves the value proposition for low-latency, high-throughput NoSQL workloads.
Autoscale for Azure HDInsight is now in preview
Autoscale which automatically scales your Spark, Hive or MapReduce HDInsight clusters up or down based on load or a pre-defined schedule, is now in preview.
April 2019
Changes to HDInsight cluster configuration access
We are introducing some important changes to support more fine-grained, role-based access to sensitive configuration information from HDInsight clusters. As part of these changes, some user action may be required.
Azure HDInsight is now available in China East 2
Four regions are available in China: China East, China North, China North 2 and China East 2.
Apache Hadoop 3 on Azure HDInsight 4.0 is now available
New features in Hadoop 3 provide significant improvements to performance, stability and availability, helping reduce total cost of ownership and accelerating time-to-value.
March 2019
HDInsight networking resources provisioned in the HDInsight resource group
The networking resources (such as NICs and load balancers) for new Azure HDInsight clusters created in a virtual network are now provisioned in the same HDInsight cluster resource group.
Azure HDInsight is now available in France Central
Across the world, Azure HDInsight is available in 29 public regions, including France Central.
February 2019
Ev3 and ESv3 series VMs are available in Azure HDInsight
Ev3 and ESv3 series VMs are available in Azure HDInsight.
Azure HDInsight available in US DoD East, US DoD Central, US Gov Texas
Azure HDInsight is now available in US DoD East, US DoD Central and US Gov Texas.
January 2019
HDInsight Tooling has new capabilities
The Azure HDInsight Tools for VSCode are now generally available (GA). They provide you with best-in-class authoring experiences for Apache Hive batch jobs, interactive Hive queries and PySpark jobs.
November 2018
Azure HDInsight is now available in China North 2
Azure HDInsight is now available in China North 2.
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