Azure Data Factory

Spec sheet

What it does

Azure Data Factory is a fully managed, serverless cloud service for ingesting, transforming, publishing and orchestrating data workflows.Read 21 Oct 2026 · azure.microsoft.com

Compliance

Microsoft's product page says Azure has more than 100 compliance certifications, including more than 50 regional or country-specific certifications.Read 21 Oct 2026 · azure.microsoft.com

License

Azure Data Factory is proprietary Microsoft Azure software governed by Azure service terms and is not open source.Read 21 Oct 2026 · microsoft.com

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, USARead 23 Sep 2026 · azure.microsoft.com

Founded

1975Read 23 Sep 2026 · azure.microsoft.com

Browser support

The Data Factory Studio quickstart identifies Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome as supported browsers.Read 21 Oct 2026 · learn.microsoft.com

Built-in connectors

Microsoft advertises more than 90 maintenance-free connectors, including Azure stores, Amazon Redshift, BigQuery, HDFS, Salesforce, Marketo and ServiceNow.Read 21 Oct 2026 · azure.microsoft.com

Code-free data flows

The service provides visual, code-free ETL and ELT authoring with mapping data flows powered by managed Apache Spark.Read 21 Oct 2026 · azure.microsoft.com

Company identity

Microsoft Corporation is a publicly traded company founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington.Read 21 Oct 2026 · sec.gov

Company size

Microsoft's LinkedIn profile lists 10,001-plus employees and approximately 228,000 employees worldwide.Read 21 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com

Documentation depth

Microsoft Learn provides conceptual guides, tutorials, quickstarts, REST references, SDK examples, CI/CD guidance, limits and security material.Read 21 Oct 2026 · learn.microsoft.com

Encryption and keys

Factory metadata is encrypted at rest with Microsoft-managed keys by default, with optional customer-managed keys in Azure Key Vault.Read 21 Oct 2026 · learn.microsoft.com

Identity and secrets

Security guidance recommends Azure RBAC, managed identities and Azure Key Vault references instead of embedded credentials.Read 21 Oct 2026 · learn.microsoft.com

Integration runtime choices

Data Factory offers Azure, self-hosted and Azure-SSIS integration runtimes; self-hosted runtime supports on-premises connectivity and custom drivers.Read 21 Oct 2026 · learn.microsoft.com

Limit: CI/CD

Zoftware reports that deploying an entire factory makes CI/CD cumbersome and that advanced orchestration becomes complicated.Read 21 Oct 2026 · zoftwarehub.com

Limit: complex transformations

TrustRadius reviewers say advanced transformations and modeling often require Databricks or PySpark and that metadata and data-quality tooling is weak.Read 21 Oct 2026 · trustradius.com

Limit: cost predictability

Integrate.io describes consumption pricing as difficult to forecast and reports complaints about accumulating execution and compute charges.Read 21 Oct 2026 · integrate.io

Limit: debugging

G2 and TrustRadius reviewers repeatedly report vague error messages, fragmented logs and difficult troubleshooting in complex pipelines.Read 21 Oct 2026 · trustradius.com

Notable product direction

Microsoft's March 26, 2026 update provides guidance for migrating Azure Data Factory and Synapse pipelines to Microsoft Fabric.Read 21 Oct 2026 · learn.microsoft.com

Orchestration and monitoring

Pipelines support visual activity monitoring, scheduling, triggers, alerts, branching, looping and conditional control flow.Read 21 Oct 2026 · learn.microsoft.com

Ownership

Crunchbase lists Microsoft Corporation as public post-IPO equity, meaning Azure Data Factory is owned by Microsoft shareholders.Read 21 Oct 2026 · crunchbase.com

Praise: connectors

TrustRadius reviewers repeatedly value the breadth of connectors across Azure, non-Azure and on-premises sources.Read 21 Oct 2026 · trustradius.com

Praise: visual low-code

G2 reviewers repeatedly praise drag-and-drop pipeline building and low-code workflows as accessible to technical and business users.Read 21 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Pricing mechanics

Pipeline execution is billed by activity runs and integration-runtime time, with runtime charges prorated by minute and rounded up.Read 21 Oct 2026 · azure.microsoft.com

Public API

Microsoft publishes a Data Factory REST API covering factory, linked-service, dataset, pipeline, run and monitoring operations.Read 21 Oct 2026 · learn.microsoft.com

Rating on G2

4.6 out of 5 from 101 reviewsRead 21 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Rating on Gartner Peer Insights

4.4 out of 5 from 123 ratingsRead 21 Oct 2026 · gartner.com

Rating on Microsoft Azure Marketplace

3.7 out of 5 from 625 ratingsRead 21 Oct 2026 · marketplace.microsoft.com

Rating on TrustRadius

8.1 out of 10 from 67 reviewsRead 21 Oct 2026 · trustradius.com

Rating on Zoftware

4.6 out of 5 from 82 reviewsRead 21 Oct 2026 · zoftwarehub.com

Regional availability

Microsoft says Data Factory is available in more than 25 Azure regions.Read 21 Oct 2026 · azure.microsoft.com

SDKs and automation

Microsoft documents .NET/C#, Python and PowerShell SDK usage alongside REST, Azure CLI, ARM and Bicep deployment paths.Read 21 Oct 2026 · learn.microsoft.com

Security data handling

Microsoft says Data Factory does not store source or sink data, retaining pipeline definitions, run metadata and cached data instead.Read 21 Oct 2026 · learn.microsoft.com

Self-hosted runtime requirements

The self-hosted integration runtime requires 64-bit Windows 10/11 or Windows Server 2016, 2019, 2022 or 2025, .NET Framework 4.7.2 or later, and outbound HTTPS.Read 21 Oct 2026 · learn.microsoft.com

Service level objective

The product page states 99.9% successful API operations and 99.9% of activity runs starting within four minutes of schedule.Read 21 Oct 2026 · azure.microsoft.com

Service limits

Default quotas include 5,000 entities per factory and 120 activities per pipeline.Read 21 Oct 2026 · learn.microsoft.com

SSIS migration

Azure Data Factory can rehost and run SQL Server Integration Services packages in Azure and Microsoft claims up to 88% savings with Azure Hybrid Benefit.Read 21 Oct 2026 · azure.microsoft.com

Throughput

Microsoft says Data Factory can use underlying network bandwidth up to 5 Gbps.Read 21 Oct 2026 · azure.microsoft.com

Plans and prices

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