Microsoft Azure offers Azure Storage, a highly scalable and secure cloud storage service. It provides a wide variety of storage services, including Blob StorageAzure Blob Storage is Microsoft's object storage solution for the cloud. Blob Storage is optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data. Unstructured data is data that doesn't adhere to a particular data model or definition, such as text or binary data. for unstructured data, File StorageAzure Files is a cloud storage service designed for sharing files, development or debugging tools, and applications that rely on native file systems. for shared file access, Queue StorageAzure Queue Storage is a service for storing large numbers of messages. for dependable messaging, and Table StorageAzure Table storage is a service that stores non-relational structured data (also known as structured NoSQL data) in the cloud, providing a key/attribute store with a schemaless design. for NoSQL data. As a main data source or destination for data migration and transformation activities, Azure Storage is essential to Azure Data Factory (ADF). During pipeline runs, ADF uses Azure Storage to read and write data quickly and effectively. Users may ingest, process, and store data at scale with ADF’s seamless connection with Azure Storage and various data sources and sinks. Azure Storage’s reliability, durability, and global accessibility make it an essential component for building robust and scalable data integration solutions using Azure Data Factory.
For creating and linking storage instances to the data factory, ensure that the following prerequisites are completed in the Azure environment:
We have detailed the instructions for creating an Azure account and a data factory instance in previous lessons; be sure to complete them!
Creating and linking storage instances in Azure
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