Scaling with capacities and Azure Analysis Services
Power BI users can use a Pro or Premium Per User (PPU) desktop license to develop reports that can be published to the service for others to view. The default area is called Shared capacity. To provide a consistent and fair experience for everyone, there are certain limits in Shared capacity. One that affects data volumes is the 1 GB size limit of a compressed semantic model. Once a company reaches enterprise levels of data, a larger, dedicated capacity will be required to avoid the “noisy neighbors” in a shared service. With a dedicated capacity that is not shared with any other company, models and reports can be monitored within the company’s service.
Leveraging Fabric for data scale
Microsoft first introduced Premium capacities to handle this volume size. It came in five different SKUs. Recently, in October 2023, Microsoft released Fabric capacities to General Availability (GA). Microsoft announced in...
