Balaji Sankaran, General Manager of Azure HDInsight, joins us to share the latest announcement from HDInsight - an updated, managed HDInsight service that runs on AKS, giving a better experience for hosting opensource analytics workloads in the cloud.

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YouTube: https://youtu.be/RiQzpkZeT9c

Resources:

HD Insight on AKS:

• Manage your big data needs with HDInsight on AKS
• Enterprise scale open-source analytics on containers (Video)
• Get started with HDInsights on AKS
• Get in touch - Ask HDInsight

Other news:

• Announcing Microsoft Playwright Testing: Scalable end-to-end testing for modern web apps
• The Microsoft Azure Incubations Team launches Radius, a new open application platform for the cloud

The Azure Podcast co-hosts chat with Corey on his Azure journey, his favorite Microsoft services, what he saw in our customers digital transformation during COVID and many more. 

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Other Updates:
Digital event: Explore how data and analytics will impact the future of your business

Azure Cost Management and Billing updates – November 2020

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Cynthia, Cale, Evan and Sujit reminisce about the year that was 2020. They share their highlights, lowlights and other insights in their experiences with Azure this year. We wish all of you Happy Holidays and a Very Happy New Year!

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Other updates:

Watch this new series to help you navigate and adopt the cloud

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/watch-this-new-series-to-help-you-navigate-and-adopt-the-cloud/

Is Azure open-sourced?

https://github.com/Azure

Azure Digital Twins is now generally available

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-digital-twins-is-now-generally-available/

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