Azure Synapse Analytics is Microsoft's analytics service combining data warehousing and big-data processing, targeting teams running analytics on Azure. It offers serverless SQL billed per terabyte processed alongside dedicated SQL pools, with storage and compute separated. Pricing is usage based and placed in the premium tier, with no perpetual free tier. The service is Azure-only and proprietary, so it is not open-source, self-hostable, or multi-cloud; Microsoft now steers new workloads toward Microsoft Fabric, though Synapse remains available. It carries SOC2, ISO27001, FedRAMP, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS compliance.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2019
- Pricing tier
- High
- Startup-friendly
- No
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Data warehouse
- Free tier
- No
- Serverless
- Yes
- Separates storage & compute
- Yes
- Open-source
- No
- Self-hostable
- No
- Multi-cloud
- No