Hi all,
With great anticipation I have been testing out the new Fabric suite and wether the solution would be usefull for a small-medium business.
In the past we used to be solely Power BI Pro licensed for the people that actually use Power BI and view content in the service. We primarily had Power BI reports and datasets that relied upon data in .csv files that were stored on SharePoint and could be refreshed in the Service.
With the new capabalities for Fabric it might make more sense to upgrade our experience in the service and potentially go for an F2 or F4 subscription. The prices for these SKU's are already a game changer from the P1 or A1 SKU's that we used to have for the premium features of the service.
However, in order to jusitify the purchase of the F2 or F4 capacity, to prepare for when Fabric would go into general availability, we are looking for more details what this would actually give us. In our opinion, there is limited documentation of the actual technical details of the F SKU's, and we are asking for more clarification:
- How does F2 differ from F4 in terms of:
- How many Lakehouses we can create/maintain?
- How many Datawarehouses we can create/maintain?
- How many data pipelines we can create/maintain?
- How many dataflow Gen2's we can create/maintain?
- Do data pipelines or dataflow Gen2 take longer to process in a lower SKU?
Moreover, it was announced that all data directly stored in OneLake would be billed 'PAYG'. The post does mention a rate, but not the specific conditions in order to compare the cost in a different Azure region.
Looking at the blog post and the Azure Pricing calculator;
- We deduced that the $0.023 price is for 1 GB storage equals:
- 'West US 2' region
- 'Data Lake Storage Gen2' type
- 'Standard' tier
- 'General purpose V2' storage account type
- 'Hot' access tier
- 'ZRS' redundacy
- 'Hierarchical Namespace' file structure
- Can anyone confirm that OneLake will be billed with these specific characteristics, while only the region can be changed depending on the region location of the appliacble F SKU that houses the data? (e.g. in our instance we would be looking at storage in 'West Europe' instead of 'West US 2')
