Capacity costs in Microsoft Fabric : is that for usage or provisioning?

[Hennie1234]

Hi,

Reading the documentation of Microsoft Fabric and it states that you have to pay for the provisoning of capacity? So that means you have to pay for capacity even if you don't use? Is that correct? Just to be clear : may be it lies in the definition of 'usage'. I mean with usage, there is nothing running in Fabric, no processes, nothing. Do I still have to pay?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/enterprise/buy-subscription#azure-skus

You have to turn off the capacity in order to save money, manually?  And It will not start up when a request arrvies at the compute? You have to start the capacity again manually when you want to run something? It won't start up automatically? 

Hennie

[GeethaT-MSFT]

@Hennie1234  Thanks for posting your question in Microsoft Fabric Community

It will not automatically start based on a job, but you can create automation via Azure to turn the resource on/off as needed. And from a cost perspective there will be some storage charges associated with your capacity, so even when it's off there could be some associated charges.

I hope this information helps

[parry2k]

@Hennie1234 Yes if you have provisioned a capacity and it is not paused you will still be paying for it even if no workload is getting used.

Check Fabric videos on my YT channel at youtube.com/@PowerBIHowTo