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RSS feedMarch 2022
Public preview: User-assigned managed identities in Stream Analytics
You can now use user-assigned managed identity to authenticate your Stream Analytics jobs to inputs and outputs without ever having to worry about credential management.
General availability: Azure Machine Learning user-defined functions in Azure Stream Analytics
Target availability: Q1 2022
Machine Learning user-defined function in Stream Analytics allows you to perform high throughput, low latency, real-time predictions, allowing you to act on insights which have a very short shelf-life.
November 2021
Public preview: Azure Data Explorer is now supported as an output for Azure Stream Analytics job
We are announcing that Azure Stream Analytics can directly output data to Azure Data Explorer, simplifying architecture where you need both hot and warm path analytics on streaming data. This feature will be added to all Stream Analytics regions progressively.
General availability: Stream Analytics now offers support for Availability Zones with Dedicated Cluster
Azure Availability Zones enabled Stream Analytics allows you to run mission-critical applications with higher availability and fault tolerance to datacenter failures.
October 2021
Azure Stream Analytics: 2 new regions are now generally available
Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed, real-time analytics service designed to help you analyze and process fast moving streams of data that can be used to get insights, build reports, or trigger alerts and actions. The service is now available in 2 new China regions.
September 2021
Azure Stream Analytics: 3 new regions are now generally available
Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed, real-time analytics service designed to help you analyze and process fast moving streams of data that can be used to get insights, build reports, or trigger alerts and actions. The service is now available in 3 new regions.
July 2021
General Availability: Azure Stream Analytics Tools for Visual Studio Code
Azure Stream Analytics Tools for Visual Studio Code is for developers to easily author, test, debug, and manage Azure Stream Analytics jobs.
May 2021
Azure Stream Analytics: 5 new regions are now generally available
Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed, real-time analytics service designed to help you analyze and process fast moving streams of data that can be used to get insights, build reports, or trigger alerts and actions. The service is now available in 5 new regions.
March 2021
Azure Stream Analytics Dedicated now generally available
Azure Stream Analytics Dedicated offers a single-tenant clustered deployment of Stream Analytics for complex and demanding streaming scenarios.
December 2020
Additional support for managed identity in Azure Stream Analytics now in public preview
Azure Stream Analytics now supports managed identity for Blob input, Event Hubs (input and output), Synapse SQL Pools and customer storage account. As a result, customers do not have to manage service-to-service credentials by themselves, and can process events when streams of data are coming from Event Hubs in a VNet or using a firewall.
Support for reference data up to 5GB and new improvements in Azure Stream Analytics now generally available
The latest update of Azure Stream Analytics, now deployed in every supported region, provides support for larger reference data ( up to 5 GB), and add support for composite keys for blob output partitioning.
October 2020
New analytics and windowing capabilities in Stream Analytics
The latest update of Azure Stream Analytics includes extended SQL language operators such as new windowing and analytics functions; and improvements of existing features.
Public preview of Azure Stream Analytics unit testing capability in an CI/CD pipeline
The Azure Stream Analytics CI/CD tools are now updated with query unit testing capability. Users can now add and run automated test cases for their queries.
September 2020
High throughput output from Stream Analytics to Azure Synapse Analytics (General Availability)
With a brand new output connector to Synapse SQL Pools, Stream Analytics can now support throughput rates even higher than 200MB/sec while ensuring ultra-low latencies.
Azure Stream Analytics clusters with VNet support (Preview)
Azure Stream Analytics clusters delivers support for Azure Virtual Network (VNet) and more predictable performance.
August 2020
Stream Analytics now can be run on Azure Stack Hub
Azure Stream Analytics is now available on Azure Stack Hub via IoT Edge Runtime.
July 2020
Azure Stream Analytics is now available in the US Gov Arizona region
Azure Stream Analytics, a real-time analytics service that is designed for mission-critical workloads, is now available in the US Gov Arizona region.
Azure Stream Analytics—Debug queries using job diagram in Visual Studio Code is now available
A new feature in Visual Studio Code that enables you to debug Azure Stream Analytics queries using job diagram is now available.
Azure Stream Analytics tools for Visual Studio Code now supports Visual Studio Codespaces
Azure Stream Analytics tools for Visual Studio Code now supports Visual Studio Codespaces.
May 2020
Azure Stream Analytics now supports error codes in activity and resource logs
Azure Stream Analytics now supports the use of activity logs and resource logs for troubleshooting errors related to configuration, data, and both upstream and downstream services.
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