Operating a cloud service like HDInsight, fully managed and backed by enterprise-grade SLA, will enable customers to deploy the latest bits of Hadoop and Spark on demand. To that end, we're excited to announce that the latest Hortonworks Data Platform 2.6 will be continuously available to HDInsight even before its on-premises release. Hortonworks’ commitment to being cloud-first is especially significant given the growing importance of cloud with Hadoop and Spark workloads.
Learn more about this development in this blog post.