Top Azure Data Services Overview: Integration, Storage and Analytics

This article discusses various Microsoft Azure services designed to support most companies' data project requirements, including a data integration tool for ETL/ELT processes, scalable data storage solutions, and a data platform that integrates all the components of a modern data solution. The text delves into Azure Data Factory, which is a serverless data integration and transformation cloud-based service, as well as its native connectors, data transformation capabilities, expressions, and functions. It also explores Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage for data storage purposes, highlighting their features and benefits. Lastly, the article touches upon Azure Synapse Analytics, a unified analytics platform with data warehousing and big data processing capabilities, focusing on its main feature: SQL analytics runtime.