The Azure Data Platform is the collection of Azure services for data management: Azure SQL Database (relational), Cosmos DB (NoSQL), Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS Gen2), Azure Data Factory (orchestration), Microsoft Fabric (unified analytics), Azure Synapse (warehousing), and Azure Purview (governance). Together they support ingestion, storage, processing, analytics, and AI.
Platform selection matters: Fabric for new Microsoft-centric analytics platforms, Databricks for Spark-heavy/multi-cloud workloads, Synapse for existing investments with migration planning, and custom combinations for specific requirements. Xylity provides Azure data platform consulting to help enterprises make the right architectural choices.