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Power BI Service in different regions
Can anyone provide me a link with an explanation / best practices or some feedback on how Power BI service behaves whenever data is stored in one region of the world and then accessed by a user in another?
Basically we have data being stored in the U.S. and are getting feedback from international sites (South America / Asia) that reports published to an app perform slow for them but U.S. based users seem to do fine.
I'm relatively new to using PBI so I'm looking to understand what can be done to increase performance globally.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
- Hi there
This typically can happen for a few reasons.
The main reason is if the connectivity from South America & Asia have slow connectivity?
Along with that very often the path that the data travels via the internet backbone has a very long way to travel. This adds time to the reports and clicking on changes.
Combine this with potentially slow internet and it can be very slow.
The option is to use Power BI Premium and geolocate Power BI datasets closer to the end users.
Here are more details: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-admin-premium-multi-geo
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- GilbertQ
Super User
Hi there
This typically can happen for a few reasons.
The main reason is if the connectivity from South America & Asia have slow connectivity?
Along with that very often the path that the data travels via the internet backbone has a very long way to travel. This adds time to the reports and clicking on changes.
Combine this with potentially slow internet and it can be very slow.
The option is to use Power BI Premium and geolocate Power BI datasets closer to the end users.
Here are more details: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-admin-premium-multi-geoThanks for the response. We will look into this!
- GilbertQHappy to help!
- nickyvv
Most Valuable Professional
Hi zebulon_jones,
you could take a look at the following documentation that describes particular actions, also when slow performance is isolated to a specific geography or region. I'll give you a heads-up, it all costs money 🙂
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/guidance/report-performance-troubleshoot - v-easonf-msft
Community Support
Hi , zebulon_jones
If you have Power BI Premium capacity ,maybe you can take a try configure Multi-Geo.
It can help extend your Power BI tenant to store your users’ data in the geographies covered in the Microsoft Trust Center,
As mentioned in this document,the following items are stored in the Premium region when Multi-Geo is enabled:
- Models (.ABF files) for import and Direct Query datasets
- Query cache
- R images
These items remain in the home region for the tenant:
- Push datasets
- Excel workbooks
- Dashboard/report metadata: e.g., tile names, tile queries
- Service buses for gateway queries or scheduled refresh jobs
- Permissions
- Dataset credentials
Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Eason
