August 2021
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
9h 35m
English
This appendix provides a short description of some popular Azure data services you might encounter as components of a data platform. The list is by no means exhaustive.
Azure Storage services are the foundational Azure data stores. They come in several flavors: Azure Files that are fully managed file shares, Azure Disk for VM disk storage, Azure Blob for unstructured object data storage, and more. Azure Data Lake Storage (Gen2) builds on top of Azure Blob and adds a hierarchical file system and file-level security. None of these services offers any compute; they are purely storage. You will need other services to process data. That said, Azure Storage provides cost-effective, hyperscale storage.
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