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HDInsight Tools for VSCode: Hive Table Preview
HDInsight for VSCode continues to boost the experience of Hive users with self-service exploratory capabilities. The HDInsight explorer in VSCode not only empowers you to browse Hive databases across…
May 2019
Corrected billing for Azure SQL Data Warehouse and other Azure services
We’ve corrected billing for Azure SQL Data Warehouse and other Azure services that impacted EA customers only.
New features for Azure Machine Learning are now available
Features include: Model Interpretability - Machine learning interpretability allows data scientists to explain machine learning models globally on all data, or locally on a specific data point using the state-of-art technologies in an easy-to-use and scalable fashion. Machine Learning interpretability incorporates technologies developed by Microsoft and proven third-party libraries (for example, SHAP and LIME).
HBase accelerated writes in Azure HDInsight is now in preview
HBase accelerated writes significantly improves the value proposition for low-latency, high- throughput NoSQL workloads.
Autoscale for Azure HDInsight is now in preview
Autoscale which automatically scales your Spark, Hive, or MapReduce HDInsight clusters up or down based on load or a pre-defined schedule, is now in preview.
April 2019
Changes to HDInsight cluster configuration access
We are introducing some important changes to support more fine-grained role-based access to sensitive configuration information from HDInsight clusters. As part of these changes, some user action may be required.
Azure HDInsight is now available in China East 2
Four regions are available in China: China East, China North, China North 2 and China East 2.
Apache Hadoop 3 on Azure HDInsight 4.0 is now available
New features in Hadoop 3 provide significant improvements to performance, stability, and availability, helping reduce total cost of ownership and accelerating time-to-value.
March 2019
HDInsight networking resources provisioned in the HDInsight resource group
The networking resources (such as NICs and load balancers) for new Azure HDInsight clusters created in a virtual network are now provisioned in the same HDInsight cluster resource group.
Azure HDInsight is now available in France Central
Across the world, Azure HDInsight is available in 29 public regions, including France Central.
February 2019
Support for Enterprise Security Package–enabled HDInsight clusters in Azure Data Factory
You can use Azure Data Factory to operationalize your Azure HDInsight Spark and Hadoop workloads against HDInsight clusters with Enterprise Security Package that are joined to an Active Directory domain.
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.
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