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HDInsight Apache Kafka REST Proxy is now generally 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.
February 2021
Azure Dav4-series VMs are available in Azure HDInsight
Adopt Dav4-series VMs in HDInsight to get great performance at a competitive price.
January 2021
General availability: Azure HDInsight extends capabilities for encryption of data in transit and at rest
Azure HDInsight Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) encryption in transit is now generally available. HDInsight also supports version-less keys for customer-managed key (CMK) encryption at rest.
November 2020
HDInsight HBase Accelerated Writes with Premium Data Lake Storage Gen2 is now generally available
With Premium Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 support for accelerated writes HDInsight HBase cluster, customers can now have increased read performance compared to standard storage and also take advantage of Hierarchical namespace feature of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
Azure HDInsight ID Broker (HIB) is now generally available
HDInsight ID Broker (HIB) provides modern OAuth authentication and enables federated users to log in to cluster without syncing on-premise password hashes to the cloud.
Azure HDInsight now supports private link in preview
Azure HDInsight private link integration allows you to create VNET injected clusters with no public IP and access them using your own private endpoints.
New region added to Azure HDInsight
Azure HDinsight is now generally available in UAE Central
September 2020
Azure HDInsight --Autoscale for Interactive Query with HDInsight 4.0 is now generally available
Enable HDInsight Autoscale to drive higher utilization of your clusters.
July 2020
Azure HDInsight now supports virtual network service endpoint policies
Azure HDInsight now supports virtual network service endpoint policies, which allow you to filter HDInsight egress virtual network traffic to certain Azure storage accounts.
Updates to Azure HDInsight
HDInsight now fully supports distributions of Apache analytics projects in-house. Plus, in the coming months, we’re launching the next generation of HDInsight with new and improved features.
May 2020
Azure HDInsight enterprise security enhancements
Three new security feature improvements are available for Azure HDinsight.
Azure HDInsight Tools for Visual Studio Code – Create, run and debug notebook
This new release enables you to perform Jupyter-like notebook operations and boosts collaborations with one-click conversion between IPYNB and PY files.
Azure HDInsight enterprise security enhancements
Target availability: Q2 2020
Azure HDInsight enterprise security enhancements include support for customer-managed key encryption with Azure Key Vault and a new feature, ID broker, which simplifies authentication setups.
March 2020
Updates to Azure HDInsight
Microsoft now fully supports distributions of Apache analytics projects in-house. Also, we’ll soon launch the next generation of HDInsight with improved provisioning and management experience, reserved instance pricing, low-priority virtual machines (VMs) and auto-scale.
January 2020
Azure HDInsight TLS 1.2 Enforcement
Target availability: Q1 2020
Starting on 30 June 2020, Azure HDInsight will enforce TLS 1.2 or later versions for all HTTPS connections. We recommend that you ensure that all of your clients are ready to handle TLS 1.2 or later versions.
Azure HDInsight is now available in the UAE North region
Azure HDInsight is now available in the UAE North region.
Minimum virtual machine sizing for Azure HDInsight cluster head nodes
Beginning 6 April 2020, customers will be able to choose only 4-core or higher virtual machines (VMs) as head nodes for the new HDInsight clusters. Existing clusters will continue to run as expected.
November 2019
Azure HDInsight – Simplify NSG rules management using service tags
Azure HDInsight now supports the use of service tags to simplify inbound network security group (NSG) rule management. Azure service tags group multiple IP addresses under a single user friendly tag. Administrators need to only create rules by referring to the tags while Microsoft takes the responsibility of keeping the IP addresses up to date. Administrators maintaining Azure HDInsight clusters can now benefit from this manageability improvement.
Azure HDInsight – Autoscale is now generally available
Autoscale for Azure HDInsight is now generally available across all regions for Apache Spark and Hadoop workloads. This feature makes it possible to operate your big data analytics workloads in a more cost-efficient and productive way, so you can drive higher use of your HDInsight clusters and only pay for what you need.
HDInsight HBase Accelerated Writes is now generally available
Target availability: Q4 2019
The accelerated writes feature in the HDInsight HBase cluster attaches a Premium SSD managed disk to every region server (worker node). Write-ahead logs are configured to be written to Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) mounted on premium managed disks instead of standard Azure page blobs. Premium managed disks are SSD-based and offer excellent I/O performance with fault tolerance. Using premium managed disks for WALs allows us to separate write ahead log storage from Apache HBase data storage.
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