Microsoft Azure services announcements and pricing updates

Lot's of activity in Azure this week - almost too much to keep up with!  We’ve announced the general availability of Azure Automation, Runbook Gallery, Event Hubs, and Microsoft Antimalware, plus the public previews of Azure Data Factory, Stream Analytics, Azure Batch, Marketplace, Hortonworks and Cloudera images, and SQL Database business continuity features. Related pricing changes have also been announced.

Azure Automation and Runbook Gallery - For more information, please visit the Automation webpage.

Azure Event Hubs - For more information, please visit the Event Hubs webpage.

Microsoft Antimalware for Cloud Services and VMs - available at no additional charge!! - For more information, please download the Microsoft Antimalware white paper.

Azure Data Factory public preview - For more information, please visit the Data Factory webpage.

Azure Stream Analytics public preview - For more information, please visit the Stream Analytics webpage.

Azure Batch public preview - For more information, please visit the Azure Batch webpage.

Announcing Microsoft Azure Marketplace - (formerly Azure Store/Azure Gallery) - For more information, please visit the Marketplace webpage or access the Marketplace in the existing Azure Management Portal and Azure Preview portal.

Hortonworks and Cloudera images in public preview in the Marketplace - This offer is the result of the ongoing partnership between Microsoft and Hortonworks, plus a newly announced partnership with Cloudera. It also complements our current Hadoop-as-a-service offering, Azure HDInsight, which provides a managed PaaS experience for our customers.

Azure SQL Database business continuity features with new visualizations in public preview - Now available to try in the Azure Preview portal