Summary

Data is one of the most crucial elements for a solution. Data has value and they need to be protected and secured. The nature of data has changed over the last few years. Data has grown exponentially in terms of volume, and the velocity of generation of data has also increased manifold. Data is also stored on-premise and on the cloud, in PaaS and IaaS services and there are a ton of drivers and protocols to access them. The data can be in any format and so parsing and understanding data across all formats is a challenge by itself. Azure provides rich services to handle all these newer facets of data. Azure provides Azure SQL, SQL on IaaS, elastic pools, sharding, data factory, stream analytics, Data Lake store and analytics, data warehouse, machine learning, and Power BI to architect end-to-end data solutions from ingestion of data to processing, transformation, loading, and analytics. This chapter was an introduction to these services on Azure and they should be read further using...