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PowerBI embedded - sharing
My testing shows that free users can consume content from a workspace backed up by A SKUtrue, from PBI perspective that workspace is a premium workspace therefore free users can come in.
MS documentation suggests that both content creators and consumers must have PRO license?I would say true again AFAIK. accessing power bi portal works for free users but it's not covered by free license.
Hey wojciech ,
You can embed with either an A or a P sku. Either one works for embedding. The big difference is that the A sku is scaleable - perhaps that is what you are encountering - that users are using it and all appears well. BUT, more users hitting that embedded product might be driving up the usage, and therefore the cost, of the A sku?
Normally, I would advise that you use the P sku since it is an established monthly cost and you won't have a sudden shocking increase one day/week/month.
In thinking through a number of different scenarios in my mind I guess it it theoretical that if you have somebody closing monitoring the A sku and pausing it now and then that might be a cheaper license but you do have to pay to have somebody babysitting it all the time.
Hi collinq ,
This is very useful, thank you.
Can I just clarify the point on A SKU scalability?
If I buy A1 SKU which costs in UK £0.785/h and then run it 24/7 for the whole month, I should end up roughly with a bill of £573. Even if the A1 capacity is overutilized I should not face to pay more than £573, but PBI performance would get throttled instead. Is my thinking correct?
Thanks for your continuous support, much appreciated.
Wojciech
Hey wojciech ,
You are correct that you will have limited functionality if you just have an A sku. And, an A1 SKU itself is limiting in that it is only 3 GB memory. A P1 SKU is the equal to an A4 SKU. So, you are limited not just in functionality but in power/speed.
I will assume that your hourly pricing is correct and then your monthly fee would be the 573 per month. HOWEVER, you have to make absolutely sure that you have the scaling/capacity all turned off. The A sku's are designed for auto-scaling and so as soon as it hits capcity, for so many seconds long, it upgrades to the next level and so on and so on. So, the huge risk here is that your pricing model gets wiped out if you have a runaway process that takes over all the capacity.
with A capacity you won't pay more than the hourly cost but you could end up with blocking errors in case you'll over use it. we've a customer that after some years on A2 had to scale up to A3 because the amount of RAM available in A2 was not enough to refresh its datasets.
you can move from one tier to another with a click, this is what "scalability" means.
Makes perfect sense.
I feel like I'm taking advantage of you here, but could you confirm for me PBI licensing in conjunction with A SKU.
My testing shows that free users can consume content from a workspace backed up by A SKU, however MS documentation suggests that both content creators and consumers must have PRO license?
Thanks a lot,
WJ
My testing shows that free users can consume content from a workspace backed up by A SKUtrue, from PBI perspective that workspace is a premium workspace therefore free users can come in.
MS documentation suggests that both content creators and consumers must have PRO license?I would say true again AFAIK. accessing power bi portal works for free users but it's not covered by free license.