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February 2019
Blob output partitioning in Azure Stream Analytics
Azure Stream Analytics users can now partition output to Azure Blob storage based on custom date and time formats.
Ev3 and ESv3 series VMs are available in Azure HDInsight
Ev3 and ESv3 series VMs are available in Azure HDInsight.
Azure HDInsight available in US DoD East, US DoD Central, US Gov Texas
Azure HDInsight is now available in US DoD East, US DoD Central, and US Gov Texas.
January 2019
HDInsight Tooling has new capabilities
The Azure HDInsight Tools for VSCode are now generally available (GA). They provide you with best-in-class authoring experiences for Apache Hive batch jobs, interactive Hive queries, and PySpark jobs.
November 2018
Azure HDInsight is now available in China North 2
Azure HDInsight is now available in China North 2.
October 2018
Apache Spark jobs gain up to nine times speed improvement with HDInsight IO Cache
Achieve up to a nine times performance improvement in the speed of Apache Spark jobs with Azure HDInsight IO Cache, now in preview.
General availability: HDInsight Hadoop Enterprise Security Package
Easily set up an HDInsight cluster with Enterprise Security Package that's joined to an Azure AD DS managed domain.
September 2018
Azure Managed Disks GUID migration and name changes
Names and resource GUIDs for Azure Managed Disks are changing November 1, 2018.
Stream Analytics: Output partitioning to Blob storage by custom date and time formats
Azure Stream Analytics users can now partition output to Azure Blob storage based on custom date and time formats.
Developer tools enhancements for Apache Spark on Azure HDInsight
We're bringing several exciting new enhancements to developer tools for Apache Spark on Azure HDInsight.
HDInsight 4.0 in preview
Azure HDInsight 4.0 Preview is now available, backed by our enterprise-grade SLA.
Enterprise Security Package for Azure HDInsight generally available
Enterprise Security Package for Azure HDInsight is now generally available.
General availability: Event Hubs for Node.js
Version 1.0 of the Azure Event Hubs package for Node.js is now generally available.
General availability: Event Hubs for Go
Version 1.0 of the Azure Event Hubs package for Go is generally available.
General availability: Event Hubs for Python
Version 1.0 of the Python package for Azure Event Hubs is now generally available.
August 2018
G-series VMs are available in Azure HDInsight
G-series VMs are available in Azure HDInsight.
Kafka 1.1 support on Azure HDInsight
HDInsight now supports Kafka 1.1.
A_V2 series VMs are available in Azure HDInsight
A_V2 series VMs are available in Azure HDInsight.
Azure HDInsight is now available in South India
Azure HDInsight is now available in South India.
Improvements to meter names and impacts to Power BI content pack reporting
The Microsoft Azure Consumption Insights content pack replaces the Microsoft Azure Enterprise content pack, which will be decommissioned by December 31, 2018.
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