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March 2024

22 Mar

Basic and Standard A-series VMs on HDInsight will retire on 31 August 2024

Target retirement date: August 31, 2024

On 31 August 2024, Azure will retire Basic and Standard A-series VMs as announced earlier on 24 August 2021. Before 31 August 2024, you need to migrate your HDInsight A series VMs to Av2-series VMs, which provide more memory per vCPU and faster storage on solid-state drives (SSDs). To avoid service disruptions, migrate your workloads from Basic and Standard A-series VMs to Av2-series VMs before 31 August 2024.

  • HDInsight
  • Retirements

January 2024

30 Jan
8 Jan

Public Preview: Azure Data Explorer connector for Apache Flink

IN PREVIEW

Azure Data Explorer connector for Apache Flink (Public Preview)

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • HDInsight
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • SDK and Tools
  • Open Source
  • Features

June 2023

13 Jun

Azure HDInsight for Apache Spark 3.3 is now available for public preview

Apache Spark™ 3.3 on HDInsight is now in preview.

  • HDInsight
  • Features
13 Jun

Enhanced autoscale capabilities added to HDInsight clusters

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure HDInsight has made notable improvements in stability and latency on Autoscale.

  • HDInsight
  • Features
13 Jun

General availability: Poland Central region added to Azure HDInsight

NOW AVAILABLE

HDInsight is now generally available in Poland Central. 

  • HDInsight
  • Features
13 Jun

Azure HDinsight Spark 2.4 approaching EOL

Azure HDInsight for Apache Spark 2.4 will be retired as of February 10, 2024.

  • HDInsight
  • Features

March 2023

29 Mar

Azure HDInsight for Apache Kafka 3.2.0 is now available for public preview.

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure HDInsight for Apache Kafka 3.2.0 now available for public preview and ready for production workloads.

  • HDInsight
  • Services
29 Mar

Azure HDInsight for Apache HBase 2.4.11 is now available for public preview.

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure HDInsight for Apache HBase 2.4.11 now available for public preview and ready for production workloads.

  • HDInsight
  • Services

December 2021

9 Dec

Azure HDInsight 2018-06-01 preview API will be retired on 30 November 2024

Target availability: Q4 2023

Transition to the new Azure 'HDInsight API 2021-06-01' before 30 November 2024.

  • HDInsight
  • Services
  • SDK and Tools
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Open Source

November 2021

18 Nov

General availability: New Sweden Central region added to Azure HDInsight

NOW AVAILABLE

HDInsight is now available in more European regions, Sweden Central.

  • HDInsight
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Open Source

October 2021

15 Oct

Azure HDInsight support for Restricted Public Connectivity is generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now create Azure HDInsight with restricted public connectivity resulting in a more secure networking infrastructure.

  • HDInsight
  • Features
  • Security
15 Oct

Azure HDInsight support for Azure Private Link is generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Enhance your security posture by leveraging Azure Private Link to connect to your HDInsight cluster privately across networks over Microsoft backbone network

  • HDInsight
  • Features
  • Security

August 2021

5 Aug

General availability: New Australia Central region added to Azure HDInsight

NOW AVAILABLE

HDInsight is now generally available for Australia Central customers.

  • HDInsight
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Open Source

July 2021

21 Jul

General availability: New West US 3 region added to Azure HDInsight

NOW AVAILABLE

HDInsight is now generally available for West US 3 customers.

  • HDInsight
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Open Source

April 2021

14 Apr

Apache Spark 3.0 is now available for public preview in HDInsight 4.0.

IN PREVIEW

Apache Spark 3.0 public preview in HDInsight 4.0 is a major update to Apache Spark and brings significant improvements including better performance and better support for ANSI SQL.

  • HDInsight
  • Services
  • Features
1 Apr

AMD-based Eav4-series virtual machines are now generally available in Azure HDInsight

NOW AVAILABLE

The Eav4-series virtual machines are ideal for memory intensive workloads, and offer great performance for large in-memory business critical workloads at competitive price points on Azure HDInsight.

  • HDInsight
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features

March 2021

10 Mar

New Norway East region added to Azure HDInsight

NOW AVAILABLE

HDInsight is now generally available for Norway East customers.

  • HDInsight
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Open Source
  • Features
9 Mar

HDInsight Apache Kafka REST Proxy is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure HDInsight Kafka REST proxy greatly simplifies messaging architecture patterns by allowing Kafka producers and consumers to be located outside the virtual network and enables working with unsupported languages.

  • HDInsight
  • HDInsight Linux
  • Open Source
  • Features

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