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March 2024

Mar 29

We're retiring Memory Optimized Data Flows in Azure Data Factory - use General Purpose for better performance at a lower price.

Target retirement date: April 01, 2027

We're retiring Memory Optimized Data Flows in Azure Data Factory

  • Retirements

May 2023

May 23

Public Preview: In-Account restore for continuous backup accounts

IN PREVIEW

Customers can restore the deleted database and containers in the same continuous backup account.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features

March 2023

Mar 15

Public Preview: Change data capture for Azure Cosmos DB analytical store

IN PREVIEW

Build CDC data flows from Azure Cosmos DB analytical store, at no RUs cost, with Azure Synapse Analytics or Azure Data Factory.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features

January 2022

Jan 19

Azure Machine Learning Announcements – January 2022 General Availability Announcement

NOW AVAILABLE

New features now available in General Availability include add multiple private endpoints for workspaces, and support for storage account IP firewall.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Features

November 2021

Nov 17

General availability: Copy data to/from Azure Data Explorer using Azure Data Factory or Synapse Analytics

NOW AVAILABLE

Mapping Data Flows provides scale-out data transformation in the cloud in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics. With these additional connectors, you can build ETL patterns at Spark scale in a code-free design environment without ever touching the Spark compute. Azure Integration Runtimes allow you to define the Spark environment and provide a serverless Spark compute for your data transformation pipelines.

  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Azure Data Factory
  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Azure Integration Runtime
  • Features

September 2021

Sep 30

General availability: Azure Data Factory managed virtual network

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Data Factory managed virtual network provides you with a more secure and manageable data integration solution.

  • Data Factory V2
  • Features
Sep 15

Azure Machine Learning public preview announcements – Sep 2021

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2021

New feature Multiple Private Endpoint for Workspace is now available in public preview in Azure Machine Learning

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Features

August 2021

Aug 26

Azure Synapse Analytics Compute Optimized data flows will be retired on 31 August 2024

Target retirement date: August 31, 2024

Transition from Compute Optimized data flows to General Purpose data flows by 31 August 2024.

  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Retirements
Aug 24

Azure Data Factory Compute Optimized data flows will be retired on 31 August 2024

Target retirement date: August 31, 2024

Transition from Compute Optimized data flows to General Purpose data flows by 31 August 2024.

  • Azure Data Factory
  • Retirements

June 2021

Jun 14

General availability: Support for SQL Server in data flows using Azure Data Factory & Azure Synapse

NOW AVAILABLE

SQL Server is now available as a data flow source sink from your on-premises and VM-based instances in ADF and Synapse Analytics.

  • Azure Data Factory
  • Features

April 2021

Apr 20

Azure Data Factory announces Data Flow general availability in two new Azure regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Data Factory has released Mapping Data Flows for 2 new Azure regions: US Virgina Gov & US Arizona Gov

  • Azure Data Factory
  • Features
Apr 14

Public preview: Cognitive Services- Anomaly Detector now supports multivariate anomaly detection​

IN PREVIEW

Enable organizations to identify anomalies across multiple variables with multivariate Anomaly Detector.

  • Azure AI services
  • Azure AI Anomaly Detector
  • Features
Apr 14

Reduce dataflow execution time with cluster reuse public preview in Azure Data Factory

IN PREVIEW

Azure Data Factory (ADF) has released a “quick re-use” option as public preview to the Azure Integration Runtime TTL to reduce data flow execution to from 2 mins to under 20 seconds.

  • Azure Data Factory
  • Features
Apr 2

Continued region expansion: Azure Data Factory just became generally available in two more regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Data Factory is now available in two new regions: Norway East and UAE North

  • Azure Data Factory
  • Services
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features

February 2021

Feb 22

General availability: Data flows in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse now support Reserved Instances

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Data Factory (ADF) and Azure Synapse Analytics (Synapse) now offer discounted pricing on data flows based on 1-year and 3-year reservations.

  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Azure Data Factory
  • Features

January 2021

Jan 25

Azure Data Factory is now available in two additional regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Data Factory is now available in two new regions: China North 2 and South India

  • Azure Data Factory
  • Services
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features

December 2020

Dec 10

Azure Data Factory data flow connectors now generally available for CDM and Delta Lake.

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Data Factory (ADF) has make data flow connectors for ETL data loading, transforming, and landing in Common Data Model (CDM) and Delta Lake formats.

  • Azure Data Factory
  • Features
Dec 9

Azure Data Factory is now available in five new regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Data Factory is now available in five new regions: Switzerland North, Japan West, Canada East, Germany West Central, and UK West.

  • Azure Data Factory
  • Services
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
Dec 4

Azure IRAP has assessed seven additional services and granted them the level of PROTECTED

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure expands its depth of offerings to Australian customers with its latest independent IRAP assessment.

  • Compliance

November 2020

Nov 20

Azure Data Factory adds cached lookups and enhanced zoom design to data flows

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Data Factory (ADF) has made it easier to view and manage large, complex ETL patterns with new zoom controls for complex graph design. ADF has also added cached lookups to data flows for more efficient and faster design patterns.

  • Azure Data Factory
  • Features

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