You can connect directly to Kafka to ingest from Kafka clusters or output data to Kafka clusters in your Azure Stream Analytics (ASA) job.

ASA is thrilled to announce public preview of Virtual Network Integration support for Azure Stream Analytics! 

Up to 80% price reduction in Azure Stream Analytics

Azure Backup’s soft delete of recovery points allows you to recover any recovery points that may have been accidentally or maliciously deleted owing to operations that could lead to deletion of one or more recovery…

Stream Analytics now supports end-to-end exactly once semantics when writing to Event Hub output.

Monitoring your applications is easier than ever with new support for OpenTelemetry and improved Application Insights integration.