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Anonymous
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4 years ago
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Do cloud data sources need a Gateway?

Hi All, Please help me understand this. My understanding about data sources on cloud was that cloud datasources dont need to be configured on Data Gateway at all. My understanding was that it would ...
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    ibarrau
    4 years ago

    Hi. The answer is "it depends". There are services that can be directly connected and other that can't. It will also depend if you have only one cloud source or a mix with onpremise data.

    Regarding databases in Azure it depends if you are talking about a service or a VM hosting the server. The VM will request a Gateway because it's not a cloud service. It's a machine hosting a server. If you don't want a gateway you need a Database as a service. The SQL Server and Postgres DB services won't need a gateway, but MySQL wil request one.

    I hope that helps,

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Anonymous
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4 years ago

ok, so in my case the data will anyways pass through the on premises gateway, even though i did not configured it on the on premise gateway because i just added the datasource to the gateway cluster via Manage gateways on Power BI service, i say this because the scheduled refreshes worked fine.

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ibarrau
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4 years ago

Kind of. There are no much configurations in Gateway. It's almost install and log an account that will be the admin of the gateway. Then you can add admins. The gateway admins are the users that can add sources in Power Bi Service to make refreshes work.

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