Azure Data Factory overview

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Azure Data Factory is a cloud-based data integration service that orchestrates and automates the movement and transformation of data. You can create data integration solutions using the Data Factory service that can ingest data from various data stores, transform/process the data, and publish the result data to the data stores.

Data Factory also supports a broad set of cloud-first data integration scenarios. These expanded capabilities of Data Factory include:

  • Control flow: branching, looping and conditional processing
  • Deploy and run SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages in Azure.
  • Support for virtual network (VNET) environments.
  • Scale out with on-demand processing power.
  • Support for on-demand Spark cluster.
  • Flexible scheduling to support incremental data loads.
  • Triggers for executing data pipelines.

See Data Factory REST API Reference for a list of operations supported by Data Factory. To learn about the service, see Introduction to Data Factory.