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Integration Runtime (IR)

The compute infrastructure Azure Data Factory and Synapse use for data movement and activity dispatch: Azure, self-hosted or Azure-SSIS.

Definition

The Azure IR handles cloud-to-cloud movement, a self-hosted IR reaches on-premises or private-network sources, and the Azure-SSIS IR runs lifted-and-shifted SSIS packages.

Exam tip

On-premises or private network source = self-hosted IR; existing SSIS packages = Azure-SSIS IR.

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