Data Factory
A fully managed, serverless data integration solution for ingesting, preparing and transforming all of your data at scale.
Hybrid data integration simplified
Integrate all of your data with Azure Data Factory – a fully managed, serverless data integration service. Visually integrate data sources with more than 90 built-in, maintenance-free connectors at no added cost. Easily construct ETL and ELT processes code-free in an intuitive environment or write your own code. Then deliver integrated data to Azure Synapse Analytics to unlock business insights.
Easy to use
Rehost SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) in a few clicks and build ETL and ELT pipelines code-free, with built-in Git and CI/CD support.
Cost-effective
Enjoy a pay-as-you-go, fully managed serverless cloud service that scales on demand.
Powerful
Ingest all of your on-premises, and software as a service (SaaS) data with more than 90 built-in connectors. Orchestrate and monitor at scale.
Intelligent
Use autonomous ETL to unlock operational efficiencies and enable citizen integrators.

Accelerate data transformation with code-free data flows
Data Factory provides a data integration and transformation layer that works across your digital transformation initiatives.
- Enable citizen integrators and data engineers to drive business and IT led Analytics/BI.
- Prepare data, construct ETL and ELT processes, and orchestrate and monitor pipelines code-free. The managed Apache Spark™ service takes care of code generation and maintenance.
- Transform faster with intelligent intent-driven mapping that automates copy activities.

Rehost and extend SSIS in a few clicks
Azure Data Factory can help organisations looking to modernise SSIS.
- Realise up to 88 per cent cost savings with the Azure Hybrid Benefit.
- Enjoy the only fully compatible service that makes it easy to move all of your SSIS packages to the cloud.
- Migration is easy with the deployment wizard and ample how-to documentation.
- Realise your vision for hybrid big data and data warehousing initiatives by combining with Data Factory cloud data pipelines.

Ingest all of your data with built-in connectors
Ingesting data from diverse and multiple sources can be expensive, time-consuming and require multiple solutions. Azure Data Factory offers a single, pay-as-you-go service. You can:
- Choose from more than 90 built-in connectors to acquire data from Big Data sources such as Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, HDFS; enterprise data warehouses such as Oracle Exadata, Teradata; SaaS apps such as Salesforce, Marketo and ServiceNow; and all Azure data services.
- Use the full capacity of underlying network bandwidth, up to 5 GB/s throughput.
Get the most out of Azure Synapse Analytics
Ingest data from on-premises, hybrid and multicloud sources and transform it with powerful data flows in Azure Synapse Analytics, powered by Data Factory.
- Integrate and transform data in the familiar Data Factory experience within Azure Synapse Pipelines
- Transform and analyse data code-free with Data flows within the Azure Synapse studio.
- Integrate all of your data with more than 90 built-in connectors.
Ignite your app experiences with the right data
Data Factory can help independent software vendors (ISVs) enrich their SaaS apps with integrated hybrid data in order to deliver data-driven user experiences. Pre-built connectors and integration at scale enable you to focus on your users while Data Factory takes care of the rest.
Explore how Data Factory can help youOrchestrate, monitor and manage pipeline performance
Maintaining pipelines with a rapidly changing data landscape can quickly become time-consuming, involving manual interventions. In Azure Data Factory, you can not only monitor all of your activity runs visually, you can also improve operational productivity by setting up alerts proactively to monitor your pipelines. These alerts can then appear within Azure alert groups, ensuring that you’re notified in time to prevent downstream or upstream problems before they happen.
Learn moreTrusted global cloud presence

- Access Data Factory in more than 25 regions globally to ensure data compliance, efficiency and reduced network egress costs.
- Data Factory has been certified by HIPAA and HITECH, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27018 and CSA STAR.
- Connect securely to Azure data services with managed identity and service principal. Store your credentials with Azure Key Vault.
- Managed virtual network gives you an isolated and highly secure environment to run your data integration pipelines.
Only pay for what you need, with no upfront cost
Explore a range of cloud data integration capabilities to fit your scale, infrastructure, compatibility, performance and budget needs. Options include managed SSIS for seamless migration of SQL Server projects to the cloud and large-scale, serverless data pipelines for integrating data of all shapes and sizes.
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Trusted by companies of all sizes
Data Factory helps Adobe deliver data-rich digital experiences at scale
Nik Shroff, Director of Microsoft Solutions at Adobe"We want to focus on ways to help our customers ingest data, clean it, store it at scale, and access it globally in real time. With Azure, we can rely on our own core competencies, and not have to build the underlying infrastructure."

Analytics firm cuts data warehouse dev time by 80 per cent
With just a few clicks, customers can use Concentra’s SaaS data solutions to create an end-to-end data management process through SSIS ETL workloads in a managed SSIS environment within Data Factory, achieving high scalability and availability while reducing operational costs.

Azure Data Factory updates, blogs and announcements
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Azure Data Factory data flow connectors now generally available for CDM and Delta Lake.
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Azure Data Factory is now available in five new regions
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Azure Data Factory adds cached lookups and enhanced zoom design to data flows
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GA: Data Factory adds ORC data lake file format support for ADF Data Flows and Synapse Data Flows
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Public Preview: Data Factory adds SQL Managed Instance (SQL MI) support for ADF Data Flows and Synapse Data Flows
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Update .NET to 4.7.2 for Azure Data Factory upgrade by 01 Dec 2020
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Migrate your Azure Data Factory version 1 to 2 service
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Data Factory SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) migration accelerators are now generally available
Frequently asked questions about Data Factory
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Data Factory is available in more than 25 regions.
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We guarantee that we will successfully process requests to perform operations against Data Factory resources at least 99.9 per cent of the time. We also guarantee that all activity runs will be initiated within four minutes of their scheduled execution times at least 99.9 per cent of the time. Read the full Data Factory service-level agreement (SLA).
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Integration runtime (IR) is the compute infrastructure that Data Factory uses to provide data integration capabilities across network environments. IR moves data between the source and destination data stores by providing scalable data transfer. IR executes Data Flow authored visually in a scalable way on Spark compute runtime. IR provides the capability to natively execute SSIS packages in a managed Azure compute environment. It supports dispatching and monitoring of transformation activities running on several compute services. For more information, see integration runtime in Data Factory.