Understanding Microsoft Fabric Licensing and Cost (Public Preview)

Adam, thanks for mentioning GCC! The GCC community is often left out and has to take videos like a grain of salt, however, it's refreshing to have it mentioned here. Thanks!

So, does it mean that if I already have a Power BI Premium P1 license, I already have a F64 Fabric's license? In other words, can I already use Fabric's features with a Power BI Premium license?

If I'm on, say, an F32 SKU, and I (as a creator) have a Power BI Pro license, can I create embedded reports running it that capacity that can be consumed by users with a Power BI Pro license?

Question that probably can't be answered today: If I get a F16 SKU as an RI (i.e., annual instead of pay as you go), can I upgrade to F32 if I undersized by paying the difference?

Do we have an eta on the shortcuts for Dataverse? Will there be shortcuts for Business Central as well?

now you have to demonstrate the difference in performance between F2 and the others.
so the impact on spark jobs, on PBI report connected to a lakehouse...
lot of job for you ;-)

adam and patrick who is the UI designer who completely ruined Power BI service -_- Old UI was 100 times better

Really great summary

What I am confused about is the new project file type (.pbip for git integration). Will this replace the pbix or will it run along side and will it only be available for those with Fabric capacity? Thanks

Thank you for the intro to pricing!
But.. I'm still confused.. SKUs..CPUs..(still not clear why i may need 2048 capacity units instead of 2 units, and how they influence performance of datalake and PBI reports).
It will be great If you consider different use cases of using fabric (for small business, medium, large, etc) in your future videos

How does connectivity work, if we are trying to move data from On-prem systems or external clouds… S2S VPNs or Express Routes still a thing with Synapse in Fabric? Or just the PBI gateway will suffice?

What happens if I reach the max of my F sku. Will it become slow, stop working? Will the price by fixed? I don't want somebody to mess up and tripple the monthly cost.

Thanks!

Good luck to all the SAM and ITAM guys out there. Godspeed!

So, I've bought a fabric capacity (F2)(In Azure), and I have a Power BI Premium Per User license, I've enabled the preview for the tenant, and I've reviewed all the sub settings on the Admin Portal for Power BI and I still can't seem to see the persona switcher, am I missing something?

Right now with a premium capacity Microsoft is providing 100 TB storage. Any new in storage they will give for onelake?
Also anything on how to track additional charges apart from capacity we are paying and for which onelake.

Sounds expensive

So long story short, Fabric is a thing for large enterprises. I doubt small businesses will go for it at that pay-as-you-go cost model.

That was a lot of information indeed. Microsoft pricing is indeed very complicated

You're still going to need premium per user for those orgs that aren't using premium capacity due to the xmla endpoint for interacting with the analysis services dataset, as well as large model format and dataset partitioning.

How do "Capacity Units" even work. I deployed F8 with a tiny amount of CU's and ran a query against the new york taxi dataset and it showed 70+ CU's in the metrics app. The query completed, but it was WAY over my capacity.

What about Datamart cost with standalone Datamart ? Within hybrid fabric+Datamart choice ?storage and entreprise license ?

So if i own a Power BI Pro subscription for the tenant plus i buy an Fabric SKU (F2-F32) i am good to go with all the stuff Fabric comprises? 🤔
Asking for a friend.. 🧀

Thanks a lot Adam for explaining this ..For a very small org like ours .. just to store and move it around between Azure and Onelake is going to cost a lot . it would be better if MS streamlines their billnig concept ..

Hi Adam, in you video you mention converting powerbi embedded to fabric capacity in azure. I cannot see anywhere on how you would do that. Can you give some pointers?

Trying to understand the whole licensing, capacities, VCores, SKU's, Workspaces, PowerBI things like reserved capacity, shared capacity, Fabric capacity, PPU, Premium PowerBI <> Fabric Premium, organizational licences, personal licenses, Office 365 SKU or Azure SKU (= F SKUs) and other stuff...okay..hmmm interesting...

Will embedding work with F2 to F32 SKU? If no, then small orgs will pay more if Microsoft is planning to deprecate A SKUs.

Hi, if I work in an organization with premium per capacity. If I activate Fabric Trial, will I get separate Compute during trial period ?

Hmm...so if I want to play the OneLake story and "see" a large enterprise Data Lake which is sitting in AWS S3, there will be additional storage cost for this data and hence double payment for both AWS and Azure will occur, right?

Dataverse, Azure or Microsoft Fabric. Is it accurate to say that Dateverse on the power platform is the best for SME's? i.e a good way to organise data from multiple excel sheets?

Hey guys , very informative video as always thank you . Help me understand I already have couple of p3s in place so I don’t need fabric is my understanding but what about the one lake storage ? Do I need to pay for it or do I get something free storage for my existing p3 ?

This guy's video content and delivery are outstanding.

Im still a bit confused, so if you get a fabric license below F64 can you still create and consume both fabric and power bi products?

Hi, My Power BI pro license is renamed as Fabric Pro license. Is that also same as that of Fabric capacities and Power Premium Capacities?
Thanks

Is it right assume that an organization with existing E5 licensing (everyone able to be assigned a Pro License) now would simply incur additional expense for Power BI usage because you must commit to a Fabric Capacity on top of individual licensing to run Power BI now? Or can an org simply disable Fabric at the tenant/capacity level and run as they did before with shared Power BI compute and Pro/PPU Licensing (no Premium Capacity)?

In typical fashion for the topics of cloud and azure, this video avoids speaking of the number of dollars when speaking of cost. Its merely the instance types that matters to bottomless pockets it seems. I guess "if you gotta ask then it's too expensive for you" is the saying.

For anyone watching also trying to figure all this out, they extended the non-BI free use trial date to Oct 1

When i have PowerBI premium capacity it means that i only have to switch button to use MS Fabric ?

Thanks for this ! Helped clearup a few things but it's still very confusing.

Microsoft licensing is a hot mess. They really wen't with the "If you can't convince, confuse" mantra.

Q: will premium capacity always have fabric capabilities? Meaning when Microsoft releases fabric as GA will that change what fabric feature premium capacity give your?

Very useful and clear, thanks for sharing!

if I already have a Power BI Premium P1 license is it the same as the F64 Fabric's license or Do I need to upgrade my P1 license to the Fabric License?

Has Something changed about the pro license usage on non-power bi fabric item creation? The official fabric licensing page shows for the creation of no-power bi fabric items you need pro even if it's backed by a capacity!

I too this day even though i work in BI; claim that Fabric is nothing new!
It's just a licence packaging because Azure as a MDW platform got too scattered trying to bolt on everything AWS could do.

Oh and I hate Cosmos DB, why they inclide at all in their certification is beylnd my understanding 😂

This is nothing short of another MS created pricing nightmare -- this Fabric is a high-priced firehose scheme is designed to rake in subscription usage-based revenue from the very large enterprise willing to spend millions for their pbi experience. I have a client with 100 potential premium users and estimate the cost to be $96k per year (when we know only 20% of the subscribers will take advantage of the premium functionality). The small to medium sized biz has no chance to continue using PBI in a useful way ---- nice job MS, ... I'm sending my clients to Tableau or keeping them in Excel.

I am still yet to understand who benefits from Fabric other than Microsoft themselves as users are pushed further into only using Microsoft products

Its like a vet clinic handing out free kittens

Drinking Game - take a shot every time he says 'Capacity'

Microsoft is so greedy

Can Fabric Capacity SKU2 be used to cost effectively embed a report to non-licensed external users?