Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog

Reduce egress costs with S3 shortcuts in OneLake

Fabric allows workloads to easily access data across clouds through OneLake shortcuts. Define a shortcut once and use it with Power BI reports, SQL, Spark and Kusto. This ease of consumption allows users to start analyzing their data in minutes rather than hours or even days, but this can also lead to increased egress charges. … Continue reading “Reduce egress costs with S3 shortcuts in OneLake”

OneLake Shortcuts APIs available in Preview

Microsoft Fabric REST APIs allow users and developers to automate common actions and programmatically interact with Fabric. This allows teams and organizations to develop solutions that can scale and integrate with other parts of their systems. Before today, OneLake shortcuts could only be created using the Fabric web experience. This meant that our users were … Continue reading “OneLake Shortcuts APIs available in Preview”

Fabric Change the Game: How easy is it to use Copilot in Microsoft Fabric

This post shows how simple is to enable Copilot which is another generative AI that brings new ways to transform and analyze data, generate insights, and create visualizations and reports in Microsoft Fabric. Discover how effortlessly you can make your data analysis happen and generate insights from it. Copilot -Prerequisites: Ref: Overview of Copilot in … Continue reading “Fabric Change the Game: How easy is it to use Copilot in Microsoft Fabric”

Easily implement data mesh architecture with domains in Fabric

Today, organizations are experiencing massive growth in the volume of data they handle. As a result, they face an ever increasing need to be able to organize and manage that data in a logical way that facilitates targeted usage and efficient governance. To meet this challenge, organizations are shifting away from traditional IT-centric data architectures, … Continue reading “Easily implement data mesh architecture with domains in Fabric”

Getting the size of OneLake data items or folders

Understanding the size of your OneLake data can be important to manage and plan storage costs, especially if you have large amounts of data.  Today, capacity admins can use the Microsoft Fabric Capacity Metrics app to find the total size of OneLake data stored in a given capacity or workspace but you may also want … Continue reading “Getting the size of OneLake data items or folders”