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Fabric Capacity Education Pricing
bcdobbs It's an interesting question. According to this page: Microsoft Fabric licenses - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn, P SKU's support Fabric functionality. So the question becomes, do organizations with P SKU's get the additional Fabric functionality "for free" or are they raising the prices of P SKU's or do P SKU's support a subset of Fabric functionality but not the full set of Fabric functionality? I cover the topic in this video here:
I think it is very much a "wait and see" at this time. By "Supports Fabric" what exactly does that mean?
I work for an academic institution. We just spoke to our Microsoft sales rep who gave us the following information.
1. We will hold onto our P1-sku at its current "academic-friendly" pricing through the remainder of our subscription period.
2. The current P1 access includes "full" Fabric access at no additional cost.
3. Importantly - The endpoints we might create in our Fabric environment will be PUBLIC not private. This means we cannot use Fabric for any sensitive, confidential, or private data.
4. When our subscription term-date ends, the P-sku will not be available and we'll have to transition to an F-sku. F-64 SKU is the minimum necessary to meet our end-user access Power BI access needs.
5. So far, it appears that F-skus will not have academic-friendly pricing options.
Please take all of this with a heavy dose of skepticism. We're still getting our bearings around this licensing info.
Now that this subject is in full swing, there is no information anywhere. Nothing regarding the process or procedures for both Non-Profit or Acedemic licensing.
