Azure Data Factory

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Azure Data Factory is a fully managed, serverless cloud service for ingesting, transforming, publishing and orchestrating data workflows.

Pricing

Data movement (self-hosted IR)per hour · Self-hosted data movement$0.10/mo
Data movement (Azure or managed VNET IR)per DIU-hour · Cloud data movement activity$0.25/mo
Pipeline orchestration (Azure integration runtime)per 1,000 runs · Azure IR orchestration · managed VNET same rate$1/mo
Pipeline orchestration (self-hosted integration runtime)per 1,000 runs · Self-hosted IR orchestration$1.50/mo

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Facts

Website: azure.microsoft.com
Price: From $0.10/mo
Free trial: Yes
Browser support: The Data Factory Studio quickstart identifies Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome as supported browsers.
Built-in connectors: Microsoft advertises more than 90 maintenance-free connectors, including Azure stores, Amazon Redshift, BigQuery, HDFS, Salesforce, Marketo and ServiceNow.
Code-free data flows: The service provides visual, code-free ETL and ELT authoring with mapping data flows powered by managed Apache Spark.
Company identity: Microsoft Corporation is a publicly traded company founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
Company size: Microsoft's LinkedIn profile lists 10,001-plus employees and approximately 228,000 employees worldwide.
Compliance: Microsoft's product page says Azure has more than 100 compliance certifications, including more than 50 regional or country-specific certifications.
Documentation depth: Microsoft Learn provides conceptual guides, tutorials, quickstarts, REST references, SDK examples, CI/CD guidance, limits and security material.
Encryption and keys: Factory metadata is encrypted at rest with Microsoft-managed keys by default, with optional customer-managed keys in Azure Key Vault.
Founded: 1975
Headquarters: Redmond, Washington, USA
Identity and secrets: Security guidance recommends Azure RBAC, managed identities and Azure Key Vault references instead of embedded credentials.
Integration runtime choices: Data Factory offers Azure, self-hosted and Azure-SSIS integration runtimes; self-hosted runtime supports on-premises connectivity and custom drivers.

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