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About Azure HDInsight
Run popular open-source frameworks—including Apache Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Kafka, and more—using Azure HDInsight, a customizable, enterprise-grade service for open-source analytics. Effortlessly process massive amounts of data and get all the benefits of the broad open-source project ecosystem with the global scale of Azure. Easily migrate your big data workloads and processing to the cloud. Open-source projects and clusters are easy to spin up quickly without the need to install hardware or manage infrastructure. Big data clusters reduce costs through autoscaling and pricing tiers that allow you to pay for only what you use. Enterprise-grade security and industry-leading compliance with more than 30 certifications helps protect your data. Optimized components for open-source technologies such as Hadoop and Spark keep you up to date.
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