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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.
January 2024
December 2021
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.
November 2021
General availability: Azure HDInsight API version updated
New HDInsight API adds new networking and availability features that help you build more resilient and secure networks.
General availability: New Sweden Central region added to Azure HDInsight
HDInsight is now available in more European regions, Sweden Central.
August 2021
General availability: New Australia Central region added to Azure HDInsight
HDInsight is now generally available for Australia Central customers.
March 2021
New Norway East region added to Azure HDInsight
HDInsight is now generally available for Norway East customers.
New Brazil Southeast region added to Azure HDInsight
HDInsight is now available for Brazil South customers requiring scenario-based in-country disaster recovery.
November 2020
New region added to Azure HDInsight
Azure HDinsight is now generally available in UAE Central
January 2020
Azure HDInsight is now available in the UAE North region
Azure HDInsight is now available in the UAE North region.
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
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…
February 2019
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.
August 2018
January 2018
Azure HDInsight—New capabilities and price reductions
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.
September 2017
Azure HDInsight—Interactive querying and Log Analytics
HDInsight now has two additional features available—HDI Interactive Query and Azure Log Analytics.
June 2017
Apache Kafka on HDInsight with Azure Managed Disks
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.
May 2017
HDInsight—Cloud-first with Hortonworks Data Platform 2.6
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.
April 2017
Web Log Analytics for Azure HDInsight
Azure HDInsight will soon include specific tasks—such as doing Web Log Analytics on Azure Website—in the query console.
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