Tag Archives: Microsoft Fabric

Updates to the Agent Pre-Purchase Plan

The Agent Pre-Purchase Plan was launched back in November 2025 to make it easier to buy consumption units for Agents created through Microsoft Foundry and/or Copilot Studio. You buy 20,000, 100,000 or 500,000 Agent Commit Units and then have a year to use them on any of the supported services. What’s new? From February 2026 Microsoft Fabric and GitHub Copilot are added to the list of services that the ACUs can be used on.

This is a good overview article explaining how the Pre-Purchase Plan works with some good diagrams, including the list of supported services: https://bit.ly/4uonAJ0.

Fabric Capacity Overage

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.

Fabric SKU Estimator

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.

Power BI Licensing Deck

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.

SQL databases in Microsoft Fabric

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.