Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions: Exam Guide 70-535

Analyzing your data using Data Lake Analytics

In this demo, we are going to create a Data Lake Analytics account and analyze some data, storing it in Azure Data Lake Store afterwards. An Azure Data Lake Store account is mandatory for Data Lake Analytics, so we will create that as well:

1. Navigate to the Azure Portal by opening https://portal.azure.com/.

2. Click on New and type Data Lake Analytics in the search bar.
3. A new blade opens up. At the time of writing this book, Data Lake Analytics can only be created in the regions Central US, East US 2, and North Europe. Add the following settings:

Create an Azure Data Lake Analytics account