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RSS feedNovember 2023
Generally available: AMD confidential VM option for Azure Databricks
Users can now select AMD-based confidential VMs for their Azure Databricks cluster driver node and cluster worker nodes.
May 2023
AMD Confidential VM option for Azure Databricks
Users can now select AMD-based confidential VMs for their Azure Databricks cluster driver node and cluster worker nodes.
Generally available: Serverless SQL for Azure Databricks
Serverless SQL for Azure Databricks is now generally available. This capability provides instant compute to users for their BI and SQL workloads, with minimal management required.
March 2023
Generally Available: Model Serving on Azure Databricks
Model Serving on Azure Databricks is now generally available
February 2023
General availability: Azure Private Link support for Azure Databricks
Azure Private Link for Azure Databricks
Now Available: Azure Databricks is generally available in China North 3
Azure Databricks is now generally available in China North 3.
November 2022
Generally available: Azure Databricks SQL Pro
Beginning in November, Azure Databricks customers have an additional option for SQL compute, with Azure Databricks SQL Pro, which provides enhanced performance and integration features.
August 2022
Generally available: Unity Catalog for Azure Databricks
Unity Catalog is a unified and fine-grained governance solution for all data assets in your Lakehouse.
Generally available: Azure Databricks in West US 3
Azure Databricks, a data analytics platform optimized for the Microsoft Azure cloud services platform, is now generally available in West US 3.
Public preview: Serverless SQL for Azure Databricks
Serverless SQL for Azure Databricks provides instant compute to users for their BI and SQL workloads without waiting for clusters to start up or scale out.
June 2022
General availability: Azure Databricks available in new regions
Sweden Central and West Central US regions added to Azure Databricks.
April 2022
Generally available: Azure Databricks Delta Live Tables
Build reliable, maintainable, and testable data processing pipelines with Delta Live Tables.
May 2021
Spot Virtual Machines are now generally available on Azure Databricks
Access unused Azure compute capacity at discounted rates using Spot VMs on Azure Databricks
February 2021
Power BI Connector for Azure Databricks is now generally available
Announcing the general availability of the Power BI connector for Azure Databricks, for Power BI Service and Power BI Desktop 2.85.681.0.
Azure Databricks Achieves DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5) on Microsoft Azure Government
DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5) on Azure Government further validates security and compliance for Azure Databricks.
December 2020
Azure Databricks now generally available in the Azure China region
The availability of Azure Databricks in China enables global enterprises to provide a consistent experience for customers in this region.
Azure Databricks now available in Azure Government
Azure Databricks is now available in US Gov Arizona and US Gov Virginia regions.
November 2020
Azure Databricks Achieves FedRAMP High Authorization on Microsoft Azure Government
With this certification, customers can now use Azure Databricks to process the U.S. government’s most sensitive, unclassified data in cloud computing environments, including data that involves the protection of life and financial assets.
October 2020
Azure Databricks now available in Switzerland North
Azure Databricks is now available in the Swiss Azure datacenters which marks another milestone on the way to digitize Switzerland
September 2020
Accelerate analytics and AI workloads with Photon powered Delta Engine on Azure Databricks
Photon powered Delta Engine is a 100% Apache Spark-compatible vectorized query engine designed to take advantage of modern CPU architecture for extremely fast parallel processing of data.
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