Azure HDInsight announcements: Significant price reduction and amazing new capabilities

We are really happy to announce that we are reducing the prices for Azure HDInsight service and making several awesome capabilities generally available.

 

Launched in 2013, Azure HDInsight is a fully-managed, full spectrum, open-source analytics cloud service by Microsoft that makes it easy, fast, and cost-effective to process massive amounts of data. You can use the most popular open-source engines such as Hadoop, Spark, Hive, LLAP, Kafka, Storm, HBase, R and install more open source frameworks from the OSS ecosystem.

 

 

Read about it in the Azure blog.