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Provisioning Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

In this hands-on lab scenario you are a data engineer for Awesome Company. You have been tasked with creating a data processing solution that will analyze crowdsourced weather information, using Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 to store the data. To start out with, you will provision the data lake and its initial containers so that development and testing of the solution can begin. Performing the actions of this hands-on lab will help you become familiar with using Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 for storage in your data processing solutions.

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Level
Beginner
Last updated
Sep 23, 2025
Duration
30m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Provision Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
    1. Create an Azure Data Lake Gen2 storage account to hold the weather data.
  2. Challenge

    Create Regional Containers for the Weather Data
    1. Within the data lake, create a folder structure to hold weather data for the USA and the UK.
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