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SamyAbdul
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11 days ago
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Fabric costs

Hi experts , we have in process of identifying cost reduction for our Fabric development. And our team member suggesting that for data ingestion that is API based, instead of notebooks using Logic ap...
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    tayloramy
    11 days ago

    Hi SamyAbdul​ 

    Logic Apps and Azure functions cost depends on usage, you pay every time they run. 

    Fabric notebooks on the other hand use your Fabric capacity, so as long as you have the headroom in your fabric capacity notebooks don't cost anything extra. 

    The only way this would make sense is if by moving to logic apps and functions, you would reduce your Fabric capacity to a lower level, and the usage of the logic apps and functions would cost less than what you saved by reducing the fabric capacity. 

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tayloramy
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11 days ago

Hi SamyAbdul​ 

Logic Apps and Azure functions cost depends on usage, you pay every time they run. 

Fabric notebooks on the other hand use your Fabric capacity, so as long as you have the headroom in your fabric capacity notebooks don't cost anything extra. 

The only way this would make sense is if by moving to logic apps and functions, you would reduce your Fabric capacity to a lower level, and the usage of the logic apps and functions would cost less than what you saved by reducing the fabric capacity.