Moving from on Premise POWER BI to cloud questions

[krypto6969]

Hi

e are currenrlty using the on premise version of power bi. But would like the DR capibility of the cloud. I see that we can move our pbix files to the cloud service.

What are the costs involved and is any of our data reside in the cloud? (does all the data stay on our local servers)

Assuming if thats a 'yes' then all traffic is fully encrypted?

Is there a 'trail' period where we could move our PBIX files up there and see what the costs would be per month? Our dashboards are only used by 'us' employees internal users only. There are about 25 of them. So I hope that means we dont have to spend 5k a month for what to us is DR of our on premise power bi server.

Is there a tool to move everything - or is it one pbix file at a time?

Thanks!

[GilbertQ]

Hi @krypto6969 

The costs to use power BI in the service would be $10 per user per month, which would work hard to $250 per month for the 25 users. In terms of storing the data this is all stored within the cloud and power of BI. The data is fully encrypted at rest and the only time it is unencrypted is when it is in your browser session to move the Pbix files to the power of Bi Service. You would need to publish them to the power BR service into an app workspace I hope that this helps. Thanks

[krypto6969]

Thanks Gilbert. 

I'm confused a bit on the storgae of the data. So if I have a POWER BI report that pulls tens of thousands of records from my DB during a scheduled refresh.this data is stored in the cloud? I thought the power bi cloud was just the service itself and that when I created the gateway connection to my databases that the data stayed on my servers and the cloud was doing the rendering of the data only?

[GilbertQ]

Hi @krypto6969 

It depends if you are using direct query, your data will then all say within your database. But if you're importing the model into your power BI desktop, then the data will be stored in the cloud. I hope that makes more sense.

[krypto6969]

Is there a query to find out which dashboards are using direct query?

[krypto6969]

It does thanks!