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jwryu
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2 years ago
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Bill including Smoothing(recent update)

Hello,  is anyone have an idea about the recent update Capacity Platform Updates for Pause Resume and Capacity Metrics for Copilot and VNET Gateways | Microsoft Fabric Blog | Microsoft Fabric Wha...
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    Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Hi jwryu ,

    Imagine you buy a reservation for 64 CU for 5000 usd. And you are running an F64. Whether the capacity is active or inactive you will keep paying 5000 a month. So pausing has no benefit (unless your capacity is in severe overload and you want to clear out the carry forward). If you do pause, any usage above 64 CUs will be at the PAYG rate of 0.18 cents per CU per hour.

     

    The price is the payg price not the reservation price. If you have a reservation there is not much of a benefit of pausing your capacity.