Azure Data Factory is Microsoft's managed cloud data-integration service, providing pipelines, 90+ prebuilt connectors, visual mapping data flows, and change data capture for moving and transforming data across cloud and on-premises sources. It is the standard ingestion and orchestration layer for Azure analytics stacks feeding Synapse, Fabric, and Databricks. Billing is per activity run, data-movement hour, and data-flow compute, with no perpetual free allowance beyond new-account trial credits. It suits Azure-standardized teams that need broad connectivity and hybrid reach.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2015
- Pricing tier
- Low
- Startup-friendly
- No
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
ETL / data pipeline
- Free tier
- No
- Open-source
- No
- Self-hostable
- No
- ELT
- Yes
- Change data capture
- Yes
- Prebuilt connectors
- Yes