Copy activity in azure data factory

1. What is copy activity in Azure Data Factory?
2. How to improve performance of copy activity in Azure Data Factory?

What is copy activity in Azure Data Factory?

In Azure Data Factory and Synapse pipelines, you can use the Copy activity to copy data among data stores located on-premises and in the cloud. After you copy the data, you can use other activities to further transform and analyze it.

How to improve performance of copy activity in Azure Data Factory?

To improve performance, you can use staged copy to compress the data on-premises so that it takes less time to move data to the staging data store in the cloud. Then you can decompress the data in the staging store before you load into the destination data store.