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Microsoft Fabric explained

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Microsoft Fabric explained

What Microsoft Fabric actually is beyond "Power BI Premium rebranded" — OneLake, the workloads, F-SKU licensing vs the old P-SKUs, and where Azure Synapse fits.

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OneLake: the idea that holds Fabric together

Everything in Fabric sits on OneLake — a single, logical data lake provisioned automatically for the whole tenant. The marketing line is "OneDrive for data," and for once the analogy earns its keep: one lake per organis…

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The workloads

Fabric presents itself as a set of workloads ("experiences") over OneLake:

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Licensing: F-SKUs, and the end of the P-SKU

Fabric is sold as capacity — a pool of compute (measured in Capacity Units) shared by everything you run — via Azure as F-SKUs: F2, F4, F8, F16, F32, F64, F128, and on up, each doubling capacity and price. Alongside cap…

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Where Azure Synapse fits

Fabric is the successor to Azure Synapse Analytics. The Synapse workload names inside Fabric weren't subtle, and Microsoft's investment and roadmap now run through Fabric: new capability lands there, and official migrat…

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The bottom line

Fabric is not Power BI Premium rebranded; it's Microsoft's whole data platform with Power BI as its most familiar face. If your organisation's needs end at dashboards, you can keep treating it that way — buy the capacit…

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