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 HadoopSparkHiveLLAPKafkaStormHBaseR and install more open source frameworks from the OSS ecosystem.

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https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-hdinsight-announcements-significant-price-reduction-and-amazing-new-capabilities/