Chapter 13
Building Data Lakes in Microsoft Azure
IN THIS CHAPTER
Soaring into the Azure cloud
Inventorying Azure tools and services for data lakes
Mapping your conceptual data lake architecture to Azure components
Assembling Azure components for your data lake use cases
If you’ve decided to head down the Microsoft Azure path for your organization’s data lake, you’ve got plenty of company. You know that market share data and other statistics can be all over the place when you do a little bit of Internet research, so you definitely need to check out a few different sources. In general, though, Microsoft Azure consistently shows up as one of the top two players in cloud computing overall, along with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
For example, a Q2 2020 survey from TechTarget (https://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/opinion/How-can-AWS-Azure-and-GCP-increase-cloud-market-share) shows Microsoft Azure’s overall cloud market share at 18 percent, not too far behind AWS, which is at 32 percent. However, according to their survey, the accompanying narrative also points out that Microsoft’s ...
Get Data Lakes For Dummies now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
