
Cloud Scale Analytics with Azure Data Services
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When you want Azure Data Lake to provision a service within your Azure subscription and you search for it, you will find a service with that exact name. We are not going to use that service, as it is the Generation 1 version of Data Lake Storage and is only there for continuity reasons.
Microsoft added the Data Lake Store Gen2 in kind of a hidden fashion. As this new version of the Data Lake is based on the standard Azure storage account, you will provision it exactly like that: an Azure storage account with an option set for Azure Data Lake Gen2 or, even better, with the Hierarchical Namespace enabled. We will look at this option shortly.
When you examine the Azure storage account limits, you might ask yourself, why should I go for a Data Lake Store when the standard Storage Account already has these wide volume boundaries and possibilities?
Well, the standard storage account has it...