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Public preview: Exactly once delivery for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
Stream Analytics now supports end-to-end exactly once semantics when writing to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
Generally available: Azure Stream Analytics in one new region
Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed, real-time analytics service designed to help you analyze and process fast moving streams of data.
Public preview: Job diagram simulator in VS Code
The job diagram simulator provides a capability to visualize your Stream Analytics job’s topology and help you improve the query’s parallelism as you develop your streaming query.
Public preview: Rules for Azure Kubernetes Service and Log Analytic workspace resources
Enable a set of recommended alert rules for your Azure Kubernetes Service and Log Analytics workspace resources.
General availability: Use managed identities to access Cosmos DB from Stream Analytics
Target availability: Q4 2022
You can use managed identity to authenticate to your Cosmos DB output from Azure Stream Analytics.
General availability: User-assigned managed identities for Azure Stream Analytics
Target availability: Q4 2022
Azure Stream Analytics currently allows you to use user-assigned managed identities to authenticate your job's inputs and outputs.
General availability: Azure Data Explorer output from Azure Stream Analytics
Target availability: Q4 2022
Azure Data Explorer output from Azure Stream Analytics is now generally available.
Public preview: Physical job diagram for Stream Analytics job troubleshooting
The physical job diagram provides rich, instant insights to your Stream Analytics job to help you quickly identify the causes of problems when you troubleshoot issues.
Public preview: Native delta lake output connector
You can now configure a Stream Analytics job to write streaming data to either a new or an existing delta lake yable in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
September 2022
General availability: Up to 45% performance gains in stream processing
Your Stream Analytics jobs get up to 45% performance boost in CPU utilization by default.
General availability: Managed private endpoint support to Synapse SQL output
You can now connect your Stream Analytics jobs running on a dedicated cluster to your synapse dedicated SQL pool using managed private endpoints.
General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL output in Stream Analytics
Native output connector for Azure Database for PostgreSQL allows you to easily build real time applications with the database of your choice.
General availability: Authenticate to Service Bus using managed identity
Authenticate your Stream Analytics jobs to connect to Service Bus using system-assigned managed identities.
Public preview: Stream Analytics no-code editor updates in August 2022
New features are now available in Stream Analytics no-code editor public preview including Azure SQL database available as reference data input and output sink, diagnostic logs available for troubleshooting, and new designed ribbon.
August 2022
Public preview: Four new features in no code editor in Event Hubs
Explore four new features in the no code editor in Azure Event Hubs. This editor allows you to easily develop a Stream Analytics job without writing a single line of code.
Public preview: Blob CSI support in AKS
You can now use built in storage classes for NFS and BlobFuse to provision new persistent volumes backed by Azure Blob storage.
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.
General availability: Azure Log Analytics in China North 3 and China East 3
Log Analytics, a feature of Azure Monitor, is now generally available for you to start collecting telemetry and analyzing your services for health and usage in China North 3 and China East 3.
July 2022
Public preview: SQL DB output connector improvements in Stream Analytics
You can now configure your Azure Stream Analytics job to write to a SQL table that hasn't yet been created or see schema mismatch detection for an existing SQL table.
Generally available: Azure Stream Analytics in four new regions
Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed, real-time analytics service designed to help you analyze and process fast moving streams of data.
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