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October 2018

17 Oct

General availability: HDInsight Hadoop Enterprise Security Package

NOW AVAILABLE

Easily set up an HDInsight cluster with Enterprise Security Package that’s joined to an Azure AD DS managed domain.

  • HDInsight
  • Microsoft Entra Domain Services
  • Security
  • Features

September 2018

26 Sep

Stream Analytics: Output partitioning to Blob storage by custom date and time formats

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Stream Analytics users can now partition output to Azure Blob storage based on custom date and time formats.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Azure Databricks
  • HDInsight
  • Features
24 Sep

Developer tools enhancements for Apache Spark on Azure HDInsight

NOW AVAILABLE

We’re bringing several exciting new enhancements to developer tools for Apache Spark on Azure HDInsight.

  • HDInsight
  • Services
24 Sep

Enterprise Security Package for Azure HDInsight generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Enterprise Security Package for Azure HDInsight is now generally available.

  • HDInsight
  • Services
24 Sep

HDInsight 4.0 in preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure HDInsight 4.0 Preview is now available, backed by our enterprise-grade SLA.

  • HDInsight
  • Services

August 2018

20 Aug

Kafka 1.1 support on Azure HDInsight

NOW AVAILABLE

HDInsight now supports Kafka 1.1.

  • HDInsight

June 2018

27 Jun

Updates to Hadoop, Spark, and Data Lake Storage Gen2 on Azure HDInsight

NOW AVAILABLE

We’re announcing several new capabilities across a wide range of OSS frameworks and support of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 on Azure HDInsight.

  • HDInsight
  • Services
  • Features

September 2017

26 Sep

Azure HDInsight – Interactive querying and Log Analytics

IN PREVIEW

HDInsight now has two additional features available – HDI Interactive Query and Azure Log Analytics.

  • HDInsight
  • Log Analytics
  • Azure Monitor
  • Features

May 2017

10 May

Introducing the Azure app (preview)

IN PREVIEW

With the Azure mobile app, you can check status and critical metrics of your Azure resources, get notifications and alerts, and perform simple operations to resolve common issues.

  • Alerts
  • API Management
  • App Service
  • Azure Monitor
  • Logic Apps
  • Content Delivery Network
  • Cloud Services
  • HDInsight
  • Scheduler
  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Azure DevOps
  • Web Apps
  • Management
2 May

HDInsight – Cloud-first with Hortonworks Data Platform 2.6

IN PREVIEW

Operating a cloud service like HDInsight, fully managed and backed by an enterprise-grade SLA, will enable customers to deploy the latest bits of Hadoop and Spark on demand. To that end, we’re excited to announce that the latest Hortonworks Data Platform 2.6 will be continuously available to HDInsight even before its on-premises release.

  • HDInsight
  • Features

April 2017

26 Apr

Web Log Analytics for Azure HDInsight

IN PREVIEW

Azure HDInsight will soon include specific tasks – such as doing Web Log Analytics on Azure Website – in the query console.

  • Log Analytics
  • HDInsight
  • Azure Monitor
  • Features

February 2017

28 Feb

Public preview: Azure HDInsight 3.6 with Apache Spark 2.1

IN PREVIEW

Azure HDInsight 3.6 with Apache Spark 2.1 is in public preview.

  • HDInsight
6 Feb

Announcing the new Azure Marketplace experience

The new Azure Marketplace experience will help you discover and deploy products, deep dive for more info, and get hands-on experience.

  • HDInsight
  • Marketplace
  • Storage Accounts
  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Network
  • Web Apps
  • Services
  • Features
  • Gallery

November 2016

16 Nov

General availability: R Server on HDInsight

NOW AVAILABLE

R Server on HDInsight is generally available. It enables scalable machine learning in the R language and several new features, such as integration with Spark 2.0 and Spark data sources.

  • HDInsight

June 2016

6 Jun

General availability: Spark on HDInsight

NOW AVAILABLE

Spark on Azure HDInsight is generally available. It brings an industry-leading availability SLA of 99.9 percent, scalable storage, and productivity tools for interactive big-data exploration and development.

  • HDInsight
6 Jun

General availability: HDInsight Tools for IntelliJ

We're excited to announce the general availability of the HDInsight Tools plug-in for IntelliJ, which helps users develop Java Spark applications on Azure HDInsight.

  • HDInsight
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features

April 2016

29 Apr

New Dv2 instances for Azure HDInsight

A new instance size, D5 v2, extends the Dv2-Series for Azure HDInsight. It has 16 cores and 56 GB of memory.

  • HDInsight
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Regions & Datacenters
5 Apr

HDInsight enables customizations to live, running clusters

HDInsight enables Script Action–based customizations to live, running clusters.

  • HDInsight
  • Features
1 Apr

Azure HDInsight supports R for machine learning and new updates to Spark and Hadoop

Azure HDInsight can run 100 percent open-source R to do machine learning and has new updates on the latest Hadoop and Spark components from Hortonworks.

  • HDInsight
  • Services
  • Features

February 2016

19 Feb

Public preview: HDInsight Tools for IntelliJ

IN PREVIEW

HDinsight Tools for IntelliJ (Preview) makes HDInsight Spark development easier. Check out this service update to learn more!

  • HDInsight
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features

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