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Laocsulak
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3 years ago

How to change update frequency in Power BI Service for different days of the week

Hello,   In our company, I have configured Power BI Service with scheduled updates every 2 hours, but on the weekends we do not need to update it as frequently. Only 2 updates would be sufficient. ...
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Laocsulak
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3 years ago

It's an interesting solution, but it would incur new costs to use SimplePBI and PowerBI PowerShell cmdlets and it wouldn't achieve my goal of reducing costs by turning off the EC2.

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ibarrau
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3 years ago

It wouldn't. If you add a script inside the EC2 you won't pay for any extra stuff. You are running the request inside something you are already paying. Extra cost would be creating a lambda script for running this.

If you want to reduce costs you can turn EC2 off and on during weekends. That's a different thing beside the refresh. The refresh will demand the EC2 to be on because of the gateway, so running on lambda ec2 or any place, you need it one to use the gateway.

I hope that helps,