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Management groups now in general availability.

Keep current on what’s happening in Azure, including what’s now in preview, generally available, news & updates, and more.

Azure Advisor is a free service that analyzes your Azure usage and provides recommendations on how you can optimize your Azure resources to reduce costs, boost performance, strengthen security, and improve reliability.

About HDInsight Azure HDInsight is Microsoft’s premium managed offering for running open source workloads on Azure. Today, we are excited to announce several new capabilities across a wide range of OSS frameworks.

Azure Cloud Shell announces an integrated editor in collaboration with Visual Studio Code utilizing the open-source Monaco editor!

The recent announcement of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 preview and its support on Azure HDInsight is already leading partners to innovate at a global scale.

Azure SQL Data Warehouse is a fast, flexible and secure analytics platform for enterprises of all sizes. Today we announced significant query performance improvements for Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) customers enabled through enhancements in the distributed query execution layer.

Today we are excited to announce that Azure SQL Data Warehouse has set new performance benchmarks for cloud data warehousing by delivering at least 2x faster query performance compared to before.

At Microsoft Build 2017, we introduced a set of user behavior analytics tools for Application Insights as a preview.

Keep current on what’s happening in Azure, including what’s now in preview, generally available, news & updates, and more.

Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed “serverless” PaaS service in Azure built for running real-time analytics on fast moving streams of data.