Defining available input and output types
Azure Stream Analytics offers seamless integration with some native Azure services, such as Azure Event Hubs, Azure IoT Hub, or Azure Blob Storage. Additionally, it can be easily configured to output data to a SQL database, blob, or even anAzure Data Lake store. To leverage those possibilities, you will have to define both input and output types you are interested in. This allows for data to be easily ingested (in the form of a stream), so a job that you will write can work on thousands of events, analyzing and processing them. In this section, you will learn how to get started with Azure Stream Analytics and define both input and output.
Creating an Azure Stream Analytics instance in the Azure portal
To get started, you will need to create an instance of Azure Stream Analytics. To do so, you must click on + Create a resource and search for Stream Analytics job
. This will...