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4 years ago

Power BI Embedded with AWS RDS - is a Power BI Gateway is required?

Hi,   We have intention to use Power BI Embedded for an AWS hosted .PHP web application. Our Power BI reports will need to connect to an AWS RDS (MySQL compatiable database). The dataset in reports...
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4 years ago

The gateway is like a headless Desktop. It needs to be able to reach both the data source, and the Azure cloud.  So if your data sources are in AWS the gateway somehow needs to be able to talk to them, likely from within AWS.

 

 

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4 years ago

Thank you for your answer, although I still haven't imagined how it works with Power BI Embedded.