Summary
Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 provides a cloud storage service that is available, secure, durable, scalable, and redundant. It's a comprehensive data lake solution.
Azure Data Lake Storage brings efficiencies to process big data analytics workloads and can provide data to many compute technologies including Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure HDInsight, and Azure Databricks without needing to move the data around. Creating an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 data store can be an important tool in building a big data analytics solution.
Tip
To learn more about Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, see Introduction to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 in the Microsoft Azure documentation.