Public preview: Azure Purview is now available in the Central India region

Analytics, HDInsight

Azure HDInsight is now available in the UAE North region.

07/01/2020

Analytics, Power BI Embedded

Because you can now embed more Power BI features in your apps by using Power BI Embedded, the Power BI Workspace Collections service is being retired.

27/02/2019

Analytics, Databricks

Effective September 1, 2020 Azure Databricks Meters will have a name change.

04/08/2020

Analytics, Data Factory

Azure Data Factory copy activity now supports preserving metadata during file copy among Amazon S3, Azure Blob, and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.

12/12/2019

Analytics, Databricks

Azure Databricks is now generally available in China North 3. 

01/02/2023

Analytics, Data Factory

Azure Data Factory adds new features for ADF pipelines, Synapse pipelines and data flow formats

05/06/2020

Analytics, Synapse Analytics

Reduce job failures by using elastic pool storage.

28/07/2022

Analytics, Synapse Analytics

Optimize performance on caching and shuffle with new services from Apache Spark for Azure Synapse

22/09/2020

Analytics, Data Factory

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

09/12/2020

Analytics, Data Explorer

Azure Data Explorer (Kusto) is announcing the general availability of it's performance update (EngineV3) which provides unprecedented performance in Big Data Logs and telemetry scenarios.

17/03/2021

Analytics, Data Factory

Azure Data Factory (ADF) is adding new connector support to enable Optimized Row Columnar (ORC) format to data flows in ADF and Synapse Analytics in ADLS and Blob Store.

30/09/2020

Analytics, HDInsight

A new Azure HDInsight capability enables you to customize and upgrade your Azure SQL Database for Apache Ambari during cluster creation.

06/11/2019