microsoft azure difference between cluster and storage account

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I am learning from this course. 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?

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

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

Data Lake Analytics Big data analytics made easy

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