Azure Data Lake Storage
Scalable, secure data lake for high-performance analytics.
Overview
Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 is a set of capabilities dedicated to big data analytics, built on Azure Blob Storage. Data Lake Storage Gen2 converges the capabilities of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 with Azure Blob Storage. For example, Data Lake Storage Gen2 provides file system semantics, file-level security, and scale. Because these capabilities are built on Blob storage, you'll also get low-cost, tiered storage, with high availability/disaster recovery capabilities.
Key Resources
News
| Date | News |
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| 11/18/2025 |
Introducing smart tier Public Preview for account level
tiering Announcing the public preview of smart
tier for Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS). Smart tier
is a fully...
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| 11/18/2025 |
Building secure, permission-aware AI agents with Agent Loop
We’re excited to introduce a new capability in Azure Logic Apps that enables document-level authorization for Retrieval-Augmented...
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| 11/11/2025 |
Azure Backup vaulted protection
for ADLS Gen2 delivers secure, off‑site backups to help organizations meet
resilience and compliance goals. Vaulted backups maintain an independent copy
of your...
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| 10/14/2025 |
Table of Contents
Abstract
Introduction
Unlocking Business Potential with Azure NetApp Files Object REST API
Why is matters
How it works
OneLake shortcuts
Direct path (Object REST API, NFS,...
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| 10/9/2025 |
Announcing the Public Preview of Vaulted Backup
for Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS)!Azure Backup now
supports vaulted protection for ADLS, delivering secure, off-site backups that
ensure business...
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| 9/29/2025 |
Securing AI Workloads with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Purview and Sentinel in Azure Landing Zones
In this blog, we’ll cover:
Why AI Landing Zones matter.
Security threats specific to AI workloads.
Mapping Azure security services into AI Landing Zone design areas.
A reference architecture...
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| 9/12/2025 |
Scenario: Bringing Literature to Life with Immersive AI
In many high schools across the United States, reading literary classics is a rite of passage—but for many students, it’s also a source...
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| 6/18/2025 |
In mid-June 2025, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL:Data virtualization for Azure SQL Database empowers you to harness the full potential of SQL to query CSV, Parquet,...
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| 5/23/2025 |
Unity Catalog access to Amazon S3 data on Azure Databricks is now generally available. This release gives you seamless, multicloud data governance by unifying permissions and access controls...
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| 5/6/2025 |
Azure Storage Actions,
our fully managed platform that transforms how organizations automate data
management tasks for Azure Blob and Data Lake Storage, is now generally
available in select Azure...
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| 5/6/2025 |
We’re thrilled to announce the general availability of Azure Storage Actions, our fully managed platform that transforms how organizations automate data management tasks for Azure Blob and Data...
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| 4/16/2025 |
Azure Backup now
supports transferring your Azure Data Lake Storage backups to the vault. A
vault stores backups and recovery points created over time. You can define a
backup schedule with daily...
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| 2/19/2025 |
Our most popular RAG solution for Azure has now been deployed thousands of times by developers. The solution includes many optional features that make it even more powerful: support for multiple...
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| 2/3/2025 |
Senthuran Sivananthan comes on the show to talk about the Well-Architected Framework (WAF) and Well Architected Resiliency Review (WARA).
Media...
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| 1/16/2025 |
We are excited to announce the general availability of customer managed unplanned failover for Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) and storage accounts with SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) enabled....
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| 1/7/2025 |
Our most popular RAG solution for Azure has now been deployed thousands of times by developers using it across myriad domains, like meeting transcripts, research papers, HR documents, and...
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| 12/20/2024 |
Earlier this year, we held RAGHack, a global hackathon which included more than 30 live streams across multiple spoken languages and programming languages. Thanks to talks from engineers, product...
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