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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

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
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • SDK and Tools
  • Open Source

November 2021

30 Nov

General availability: Azure HDInsight API version updated

NOW AVAILABLE

New HDInsight API adds new networking and availability features that help you build more resilient and secure networks.

  • Services
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features
  • Open Source
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
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Open Source

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

March 2021

10 Mar

New Norway East region added to Azure HDInsight

NOW AVAILABLE

HDInsight is now generally available for Norway East customers.

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

New Brazil Southeast region added to Azure HDInsight

NOW AVAILABLE

HDInsight is now available for Brazil South customers requiring scenario-based in-country disaster recovery.

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

November 2020

4 Nov

New region added to Azure HDInsight

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure HDinsight is now generally available in UAE Central

  • HDInsight
  • Regions & Datacenters

January 2020

7 Jan

Azure HDInsight is now available in the UAE North region

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure HDInsight is now available in the UAE North region.

  • HDInsight
  • Services
  • Regions & Datacenters

July 2019

8 Jul

Apache Spark 2.4 and Apache Kafka 2.1 support on Azure HDInsight

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • HDInsight
  • Features

June 2019

19 Jun

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…

  • HDInsight
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features

February 2019

25 Feb

Support for Enterprise Security Package–enabled HDInsight clusters in Azure Data Factory

You can use Azure Data Factory to operationalise your Azure HDInsight Spark and Hadoop workloads against HDInsight clusters with Enterprise Security Package that are joined to an Active Directory domain.

  • Data Factory
  • Data Factory V2
  • Features

August 2018

20 Aug

Kafka 1.1 support on Azure HDInsight

NOW AVAILABLE

HDInsight now supports Kafka 1.1.

  • HDInsight

January 2018

12 Jan

Azure HDInsight—New capabilities and price reductions

NOW AVAILABLE

We recently made several exciting announcements about Azure HDInsight, including a price reduction of up to 52 percent on all workloads on HDInsight, and added an additional 80 percent price reduction for Microsoft R Server add-on.

  • 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

June 2017

30 Jun

Apache Kafka on HDInsight with Azure Managed Disks

IN PREVIEW

We are pleased to announce Apache Kafka with Azure Managed Disks Preview on the HDInsight platform. Users will now be able to deploy Kafka clusters with managed disks straight from the Azure portal, with no signup necessary.

  • Managed Disks
  • Features

May 2017

2 May

HDInsight—Cloud-first with Hortonworks Data Platform 2.6

IN PREVIEW

Operating a cloud service like HDInsight, fully managed and backed by enterprise-grade SLA, will enable customers to deploy the latest bits of Hadoop and Spark on demand. To that end, we are 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

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