Azure HDInsight is now available in France Central. Across the world, Azure HDInsight is available in 29 public regions.
Azure HDInsight is a fully managed cloud service that makes it easy, fast, and cost-effective to process massive amounts of data. Customers can use the most popular open-source frameworks, such as Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Interactive Query (LLAP), Kafka, Storm, HBase, and Microsoft R Server.
See the availability by region here.
For more information, see the Azure HDInsight documentation.