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September 2018
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 October 31, 2018.
June 2018
Improvements to meter names for Enterprise Agreement customers
Effective August 16, 2018, we’ll introduce improved standardized meter names for Virtual Machines. Meter name changes for all other services will be effective by the end of October 2018.
Updates to Hadoop, Spark, and Data Lake Storage Gen2 on Azure HDInsight
We’re announcing several new capabilities across a wide range of OSS frameworks and support of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 on Azure HDInsight.
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're 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
Hadoop Connector now available for Azure Cosmos DB
The Hadoop Connector for Azure Cosmos DB allows users to perform complex analytics jobs on data within the Apache Hadoop framework.
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're 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.
February 2017
Public preview: Azure HDInsight 3.6 with Apache Spark 2.1
Azure HDInsight 3.6 with Apache Spark 2.1 is in public preview.
November 2016
General availability: R Server on HDInsight
R Server on HDInsight is generally available. It enables scalable machine learning in the R language and several new features, such as integration with Spark 2.0 and Spark data sources.
June 2016
General availability: Spark on HDInsight
Spark on Azure HDInsight is generally available. It brings an industry-leading availability SLA of 99.9 percent, scalable storage, and productivity tools for interactive big-data exploration and development.
General availability: HDInsight Tools for IntelliJ
We're excited to announce the general availability of the HDInsight Tools plug-in for IntelliJ, which helps users develop Java Spark applications on Azure HDInsight.
May 2016
Azure Data Lake update announcement
Azure Data Lake updates are available and provide basic improvements across the board.
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