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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
May 2023
Public Preview: In-Account restore for continuous backup accounts
Customers can restore the deleted database and containers in the same continuous backup account.
March 2023
Public Preview: Change data capture for Azure Cosmos DB analytical store
Build CDC data flows from Azure Cosmos DB analytical store, at no RUs cost, with Azure Synapse Analytics or Azure Data Factory.
January 2022
Azure Machine Learning Announcements – January 2022 General Availability Announcement
New features now available in General Availability include add multiple private endpoints for workspaces, and support for storage account IP firewall.
November 2021
General availability: Copy data to/from Azure Data Explorer using Azure Data Factory or Synapse Analytics
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.
September 2021
General availability: Azure Data Factory managed virtual network
Azure Data Factory managed virtual network provides you with a more secure and manageable data integration solution.
Azure Machine Learning public preview announcements – Sep 2021
Target availability: Q3 2021
New feature Multiple Private Endpoint for Workspace is now available in public preview in Azure Machine Learning
August 2021
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 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.
June 2021
General availability: Support for SQL Server in data flows using Azure Data Factory & Azure Synapse
SQL Server is now available as a data flow source sink from your on-premises and VM-based instances in ADF and Synapse Analytics.
April 2021
Azure Data Factory announces Data Flow general availability in two new Azure regions
Azure Data Factory has released Mapping Data Flows for 2 new Azure regions: US Virgina Gov & US Arizona Gov
Public preview: Cognitive Services- Anomaly Detector now supports multivariate anomaly detection
Enable organizations to identify anomalies across multiple variables with multivariate Anomaly Detector.
Reduce dataflow execution time with cluster reuse public preview in Azure Data Factory
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.
Continued region expansion: Azure Data Factory just became generally available in two more regions
Azure Data Factory is now available in two new regions: Norway East and UAE North
February 2021
General availability: Data flows in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse now support Reserved Instances
Azure Data Factory (ADF) and Azure Synapse Analytics (Synapse) now offer discounted pricing on data flows based on 1-year and 3-year reservations.
January 2021
Azure Data Factory is now available in two additional regions
Azure Data Factory is now available in two new regions: China North 2 and South India
December 2020
Azure Data Factory data flow connectors now generally available for CDM and Delta Lake.
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 is now available in five new regions
Azure Data Factory is now available in five new regions: Switzerland North, Japan West, Canada East, Germany West Central, and UK West.
Azure IRAP has assessed seven additional services and granted them the level of PROTECTED
Azure expands its depth of offerings to Australian customers with its latest independent IRAP assessment.
November 2020
Azure Data Factory adds cached lookups and enhanced zoom design to data flows
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.
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