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Event Hubs on Azure Stack Hub for disconnected scenarios is now generally available
Supports streaming events via Event Hubs for disconnected scenarios on Azure Stack Hub.
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.
Event hubs on Azure Stack Hub is now generally available
The GA version of Event Hubs is now available on Azure Stack Hub. This will allow you to realize cloud and on-premises scenarios that use streaming and event-based architectures.
October 2020
Schema Registry for Azure Event Hubs public preview
Utilize the Schema Registry in Azure Event Hubs to provide data governance and operational efficiencies for message delivery.
May 2020
Azure Private Link is now available for multiple new Azure services
Azure Private Link now supports multiple new Azure services in general availability and preview.
Azure Private Link is now generally available in US Government regions
Azure Private Link now includes multiple new services available in GA.
April 2020
The preview version of Event Hubs on Azure Stack Hub is now available
The preview version of Event Hubs is now available on Azure Stack Hub.
March 2020
Azure SDKs General Availability - March 2020
Additional libraries for working with Azure services are now generally available.
Announcing Azure Private Link GA for Azure Services
Azure Private Link now includes multiple new services available in Preview and GA.
July 2019
One Click Integration with Stream Analytics from Event Hubs
With just 1 click, Event Hubs customers can easily visualize incoming streaming data and start writing Stream Analytics query from the Event Hubs portal.
A new set of Azure SDKs is now available in preview
A new set of libraries for working with Azure Storage, Cosmos DB, Key Vault, and Event Hubs in Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and C# is now available in preview.
May 2019
Self-serve experience with Event Hubs Preview
Azure Event Hubs clusters can now be directly created through the Azure Portal as a self-serve experience.
April 2019
Set custom metadata properties for Stream Analytics output
Stream Analytics now allows users to attach query columns as user properties to outgoing messages to helps better facilitate downstream processing and reporting etc.
Event-driven Java with Spring Cloud Stream Binder for Azure Event Hubs is now available
It’s simple to build highly scalable, event-driven Java apps using Spring Cloud Stream with Event Hubs, a fully managed, real-time data ingestion service now available on Azure that’s a resilient and reliable service for any situation.
March 2019
Event Hubs resource GUID changes
On May 1, 2019, the global region resource GUIDs for Event Hubs will break out into new US Government region resource GUIDs.
January 2019
Service Bus and Event Hubs Availability Zones now generally available (GA)
Availability Zones support is now generally available for Azure Service Bus premium and Azure Event Hubs standard in every Azure region that has zone redundant datacenters.
December 2018
Azure Service Bus and Azure Event Hubs Virtual Networks and Firewall rules are now generally available
Virtual Networks and Firewall rules for both Azure Event Hubs and Azure Service Bus are now generally available.
November 2018
Azure Event Hubs for Apache Kafka is now available
With Azure Event Hubs for Apache Kafka, we’re bringing together two powerful distributed streaming platforms so you can access the breadth of Kafka ecosystem applications without having to manage servers or networks.
Event Hubs on Azure Stack
Azure Event Hubs is a big data streaming platform and event ingestion service, capable of receiving and processing millions of events per second, that can now run on Azure Stack.
September 2018
General availability: Event Hubs for Node.js
Version 1.0 of the Azure Event Hubs package for Node.js is now generally available.
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