Automation of Power BI Embedded Capacity Pausing

[jonharding]

It's great that we can now provision Power BI embedded capacities in Azure, with the option to scale and pause them in the portal. However we really need to be able to automate scale-out and pause/start of these resources. Please make PowerShell cmdlets available to allow this.

[nishalit]

We now have support for this API through PowerShell as well. See latest blog post- https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-developer-community-january-update/

[bradley_kirby]

Oh yes this would be awesome!

[fbcideas_migusr]

I am surprised no one from Microsoft was able to reply. It is already possible to suspend/resume azure dedicated instance via the azure management REST API. See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi-embedded/ for the suspend API. You are right that the azure powershell cmdlets certainly lacks this API for now, but you can build requests by yourself.