Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog

Permission model improvements for Azure and Fabric Events

Azure and Fabric Events offer a powerful capability within Real-Time Intelligence that enables you to ingest system events that are generated in Microsoft Fabric and Azure to deliver them to consumers in Microsoft Fabric like Activator for setting event-based triggers or Eventstream to stream and process events to other destinations. Permission model To subscribe to Azure and Fabric events … Continue reading “Permission model improvements for Azure and Fabric Events”

Access Amazon S3 Shortcuts Securely and Seamlessly with Microsoft Entra Service Principals (Preview)

Microsoft Fabric now offers a preview of support for Microsoft Entra service principals when using Amazon S3 Shortcuts. This feature allows the use of Entra service principals to securely access S3 buckets without the need for long-term AWS access keys. Previously, S3 shortcuts required access keys. With this update, organizations can authorize access using Microsoft … Continue reading “Access Amazon S3 Shortcuts Securely and Seamlessly with Microsoft Entra Service Principals (Preview)”

Announcing Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric Featuring New Capabilities! (Preview)

The Preview of Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric, is now available to all users. Following its initial announcement at Microsoft Build 2025, several new capabilities have been added to improve data workflows. With this release, you can seamlessly access and analyze your operational data across the Fabric ecosystem. Leverage Real-Time Intelligence, Copilot-powered Power BI, and … Continue reading “Announcing Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric Featuring New Capabilities! (Preview)”

New in OneLake: Access your Delta Lake tables as Iceberg automatically (Preview)

Effortlessly read Delta Lake tables using Apache Iceberg readers Microsoft Fabric is a unified, SaaS data and analytics platform designed for the era of AI. All workloads in Microsoft Fabric use Delta Lake as the standard, open-source table format. With Microsoft OneLake, Fabric’s unified SaaS data lake, customers can unify their data estate across multiple … Continue reading “New in OneLake: Access your Delta Lake tables as Iceberg automatically (Preview)”

New in Fabric Data Agent: Data source instructions for smarter, more accurate AI responses

We’re excited to introduce Data Source Instructions, a powerful new feature in the Fabric Data Agent that helps you get more precise, relevant answers from your structured data. What are Data Source instructions? When you use the Data Agent to ask questions in natural language, the agent must determine which data source to use and … Continue reading “New in Fabric Data Agent: Data source instructions for smarter, more accurate AI responses”