Azure Synapse Analytics
Accelerate time to insight across enterprise data warehouses and big data systems.
Overview
Activate the value of your data faster
- Rapidly deliver insights and machine learning models from across data warehouses and big data analytics systems using limitless scale.
- Uncover powerful insights by transforming and visualizing your data with the help of machine learning, AI, and BI.
- Create a unified experience for developing end-to-end analytics solutions that reduces project development time.
- Secure your data with advanced security and privacy features such as column- and row-level security and dynamic data masking.
- Accelerate analytics with a cloud-native, decoupled compute and storage architecture that scales independently, supports open formats, and aligns seamlessly with Microsoft Fabric.
- Unify SQL, Spark, data integration and business intelligence in a single workspace so teams can collaborate, reuse assets, and deliver insights faster.
- Optimize cost and performance with intelligent workload management, elastic scaling, and flexible pricing models designed to maximize value at any scale.
- Migrate Synapse workloads to Fabric with built-in compatibility, shared SQL and Spark foundations, and guided tooling that reduces risk and accelerates time to value.
FEATURES
Learn what you can do with Azure Synapse Analytics
Take your analytics further
Gain insights across data warehouses, data lakes, operational databases, and big data analytics systems.
Trim development time and share data more easily
Apply machine learning models to your intelligent apps without any data movement and share data with just a few clicks.
Unify the analytics workspace
Enable data engineers, database administrators, data scientists, and business analysts to use the same analytic service.
Move data for faster insights
Get near-real-time insights by easily moving data between operational databases and business applications.
Secure your data
Keep your data safe with advanced security and privacy features such as automated threat detection and always-on encryption.
Security
Embedded security and compliance
34,000
Full-time equivalent engineers dedicated to security initiatives at Microsoft.
15,000
Partners with specialized security expertise.
>100
Compliance certifications, including over 50 specific to global regions and countries.
Pricing
Flexible consumption-based pricing
Take advantage of the Azure Synapse Analytics pay-as-you-go pricing model.
RESOURCES
Migrate from Synapse to Microsoft Fabric
Explore these resources to learn how to migrate to Microsoft Fabric.
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions
- A data warehouse is a centralized repository that holds structured data (database tables, Excel sheets) and semi-structured data (XML files, webpages) for the purposes of reporting, analysis, and other forms of business intelligence. Learn more about data warehouses.
- Azure Synapse is available in most regions worldwide—see the Azure products by region page for the latest details.
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