A data warehouse is a centralized repository that holds structured data (database tables, Excel sheets) and semi-structured data (XML files, webpages) for the
Azure SQL Data Warehouse is a managed Data Warehouse-as-a Service (DWaaS) offering provided by Microsoft Azure. A data warehouse is a federated repository for data collected by an enterprise's operational systems. Data systems emphasize the capturing of data from different sources for both access and analysis.
Overview
When you prepare your landing zone environment for your cloud adoption, you need to determine the data requirements for hosting your workloads Identify data services requirements
As part of your landing zone evaluation and preparation, you need to identify the data stores that your landing zone needs to support Database feature comparison
The following table lists features available in Azure database services Regional availability
Azure lets you deliver services at the scale you need to reach your customers and partners wherever they are Data residency and compliance requirements
Legal and contractual requirements that are related to data storage often apply to your workloads Establish controls for database services
When you prepare your landing zone environment, you can establish controls that limit what data stores that users can deploy Next steps
•Review database security best practices.
•Review a comparison of Azure SQL deployment options 