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Azure Data Factory
Redmond, Washington, USA
Plans and prices
Data movement (self-hosted IR)
$0.10usage-based
Self-hosted data movement
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Data movement (Azure or managed VNET IR)
$0.25usage-based
Cloud data movement activity
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Pipeline orchestration (Azure integration runtime)
$1usage-based
Azure IR orchestration · managed VNET same rate
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Pipeline orchestration (self-hosted integration runtime)
$1.50usage-based
Self-hosted IR orchestration
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On the record
- Browser support
- The Data Factory Studio quickstart identifies Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome as supported browsers.learn.microsoft.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Built-in connectors
- Microsoft advertises more than 90 maintenance-free connectors, including Azure stores, Amazon Redshift, BigQuery, HDFS, Salesforce, Marketo and ServiceNow.azure.microsoft.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Code-free data flows
- The service provides visual, code-free ETL and ELT authoring with mapping data flows powered by managed Apache Spark.azure.microsoft.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Company identity
- Microsoft Corporation is a publicly traded company founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington.sec.gov · read 21 Oct 2026
- Company size
- Microsoft's LinkedIn profile lists 10,001-plus employees and approximately 228,000 employees worldwide.linkedin.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- Microsoft's product page says Azure has more than 100 compliance certifications, including more than 50 regional or country-specific certifications.azure.microsoft.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Documentation depth
- Microsoft Learn provides conceptual guides, tutorials, quickstarts, REST references, SDK examples, CI/CD guidance, limits and security material.learn.microsoft.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Encryption and keys
- Factory metadata is encrypted at rest with Microsoft-managed keys by default, with optional customer-managed keys in Azure Key Vault.learn.microsoft.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Identity and secrets
- Security guidance recommends Azure RBAC, managed identities and Azure Key Vault references instead of embedded credentials.learn.microsoft.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Integration runtime choices
- Data Factory offers Azure, self-hosted and Azure-SSIS integration runtimes; self-hosted runtime supports on-premises connectivity and custom drivers.learn.microsoft.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- License
- Azure Data Factory is proprietary Microsoft Azure software governed by Azure service terms and is not open source.microsoft.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Limit: CI/CD
- Zoftware reports that deploying an entire factory makes CI/CD cumbersome and that advanced orchestration becomes complicated.zoftwarehub.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Limit: complex transformations
- TrustRadius reviewers say advanced transformations and modeling often require Databricks or PySpark and that metadata and data-quality tooling is weak.trustradius.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Limit: cost predictability
- Integrate.io describes consumption pricing as difficult to forecast and reports complaints about accumulating execution and compute charges.integrate.io · read 21 Oct 2026
- Limit: debugging
- G2 and TrustRadius reviewers repeatedly report vague error messages, fragmented logs and difficult troubleshooting in complex pipelines.trustradius.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Notable product direction
- Microsoft's March 26, 2026 update provides guidance for migrating Azure Data Factory and Synapse pipelines to Microsoft Fabric.learn.microsoft.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Orchestration and monitoring
- Pipelines support visual activity monitoring, scheduling, triggers, alerts, branching, looping and conditional control flow.learn.microsoft.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Ownership
- Crunchbase lists Microsoft Corporation as public post-IPO equity, meaning Azure Data Factory is owned by Microsoft shareholders.crunchbase.com · read 21 Oct 2026
