Microsoft announce that Fabric Capacity Overage will be an opt-in feature in Microsoft Fabric to automatically bill for excess capacity on a Pay-As-You-Go basis, and thus protect capacities from being throttled.
Expect to see this in public preview this quarter, and check out the Fabric roadmap for more details: https://bit.ly/4kFaAKV.
All Microsoft Fabric workloads consume the same Fabric Capacity Units, and there’s a Fabric SKU Estimator tool in public preview. Its aim is to help customers to identify the appropriate Fabric Capacity Unit SKU for their needs, based on their data requirements, usage patterns, and workload combinations.
Find the tool here: https://bit.ly/4pi1SDm, and there’s a useful page in the Learn documentation here: https://bit.ly/4ibpUO3 that demonstrates how the Fabric SKU Estimator might be used via a comprehensive sample scenario.
Microsoft’s Power BI Licensing Deck is a useful resource for details on licensing across the Power BI portfolio: Power BI Pro, Power BI Premium Per User, Power BI Embedded, and Microsoft Fabric. We found the Fabric section particularly interesting with its pages on how Capacity Units (CUs) work and Copilot in Microsoft Fabric, as well as the licensing scenarios covering Power BI Premium and Power BI Embedded.
Help yourself to this Licensing Deck here: https://bit.ly/42Psx1x.
Microsoft announce that there’s a new member of the Fabric workload family – SQL databases. They consume the same Fabric Capacity Units as the other Fabric workloads, with storage and backups billed separately. However, you can use SQL database in Fabric for free until 1 January, 2025 when compute and data storage charges begin, with backup billing starting on 1 February, 2025.
Find the announcement with an overview of notable features here: https://bit.ly/3Z0iq7n.