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Power BI Embedded - is an premise gateway required?
Hi Meragao,
Yes, for example, if you have an Excel file on your computer, the Power BI Service doesn't know its location and can't reach it either. Now the on-premises Gateway will do its job as a bridge. If the data is on the cloud service like Azure or AWS, the on-premises Gateway isn't necessary. Because Power BI Service can access it directly if the Service has permissions.
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Microsoft EmployeeHi Meragao,
The Power BI gateway is a bridge that connects the on-premises data and the cloud data, the Service. So it isn't a component of Power BI Embedded.
Though I don't know much about your application, I can give a simple view of Power BI Embedded. Firstly, we get everything ready on the Service. Then embed the contents in the custom application using APIs. The Power BI Gateway is used in the former part.
Please refer to developer/embedding for more details about Power BI embedding.
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Thanks for the reply, so, just to clarify you're saying that the gateway would be required to connect on prem data to the cloud?
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Hi Meragao,
Yes, for example, if you have an Excel file on your computer, the Power BI Service doesn't know its location and can't reach it either. Now the on-premises Gateway will do its job as a bridge. If the data is on the cloud service like Azure or AWS, the on-premises Gateway isn't necessary. Because Power BI Service can access it directly if the Service has permissions.
Best Regards,
