Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 is now GA. Features from Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1, such as file system semantics, file-level security and scale are combined with low-cost, tiered storage, high availability/disaster recovery capabilities from Azure Blob Storage. You can click here to read more.

We highly recommend that you start using Data Lake Storage Gen2 as the foundation for building your enterprise data lakes and get the best of Azure Blob Storage as well as Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1. If you still would like to use Data Lake Storage Gen1, you can get started by clicking 'Create'.

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 is designed to be an enterprise-wide, hyper scale repository for big data analytic workloads. In the data lake, you can easily capture data of any size, type and speed in a single place for the purposes of operational and exploratory analytics.