Azure Weekly Newsletter Issue #172 powered by endjin We're only a few weeks away from BUILD, which means you should brace for impact as there will be a deluge of Azure announcements incoming! The big news this week is that Azure Container Instances now generally available . Here are the other notable announcements: Ability to redeploy a Lab Virtual Machine Replicated Tables now generally available in Azure SQL Data Warehouse Accelerate real-time big data analytics with Spark connector for Microsoft SQL Databases Azure Analysis Services integration with VNets via On-Premises Data Gateway HDInsight tools for VS Code now supports argparse and Spark 2.2 Upcoming new capabilities in Azure Time Series Insights Azure IoT Hub SDK officially provides native iOS support Public preview: Event Hubs for Python and for Node.js Azure Toolkit for Eclipse integrates with HDInsight Ambari and supports Spark 2.2 Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ integrates with HDInsig...