How to Create an Azure Synapse Analytics Workspace | Azure Synapse Analytics Tutorial

How to Create an Azure Synapse Analytics Workspace

🚀 How to Create an Azure Synapse Analytics Workspace

A Synapse Workspace is your main control center — the place where you can:

  • 🔧 Build, manage, and monitor all your analytics tasks (SQL, Spark, pipelines, reports) in one unified experience.

Creating an Azure Synapse workspace is the first step toward building a modern analytics platform. Here's a simple step-by-step process anyone can follow:

✅ Step 1: Go to Azure Portal

  • Visit https://portal.azure.com
  • In the top search bar, type “Synapse Analytics”
  • Click “Azure Synapse Analytics” under Services

✅ Step 2: Click "+ Create"

You’ll now fill in some basic workspace details:

  • Subscription: Choose your Azure subscription
  • Resource group: Create a new one or use an existing one
  • Workspace name: e.g., my-synapse-demo
  • Region: Choose the closest Azure region for best performance

✅ Step 3: Configure Storage

  • Choose a Data Lake Storage Gen2 account (or create a new one)
  • Select or create a file system (container), e.g., synapsestorage
  • This is where your data, notebooks, logs, etc., will be stored

✅ Step 4: Security Settings (Optional for Now)

  • Leave default for Managed Identity and Network access
  • You can come back later to configure private endpoints, firewall, etc.

✅ Step 5: Review + Create

  • Click “Review + Create”
  • Wait for validation → then hit “Create”
  • Azure will deploy the Synapse workspace in a few minutes

✅ Step 6: Launch Synapse Studio

  • After deployment, click “Go to Resource”
  • Then click “Open Synapse Studio”
  • You’ll land in the Synapse development environment to:
    • Ingest data
    • Run SQL or Spark queries
    • Create pipelines
    • Build reports

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Written by: Aamir Shahzad

Some of the contents in this website were created with assistance from ChatGPT and Gemini.

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