microsoft azure difference between cluster and storage account
<p>I am learning from <a href="https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:Microsoft+DAT202.2x+1T2016/courseware/b1b9eb89260d48d6bd152c85f918fa0d/44b39046da26438c940d341ae2c937cc/" rel="nofollow">this course</a>. It asks to create a new hdinsight cluster (options are hadoop, hbase, storm or spark) and also a storage account. What is difference between a cluster and a storage account? Does cluster include processors to process my jobs and does storage account mean space to store my data? Why cannot i connect the same storage account with different clusters?</p>

<p>Also under Microsoft Azure >> New >> Data + Analytics, I see 2 options : hdinsight,  data lake analytics that deal with big data. What is difference between those two? Both of them look similar</p>

<p>HDInsight
Microsoft's cloud-based Big Data service. Apache Hadoop and other popular Big Data solutions.</p>

<p>Data Lake Analytics
Big data analytics made easy</p>