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Power BI Premium (P-SKUs) Microsoft Fabric

Legacy names Power BI Premium (P-SKUs), Azure Synapse Analytics (SaaS Workloads)

Unified SaaS data analytics, lakehouse, data engineering, warehousing, real-time intelligence, and business intelligence platform built on OneLake.

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  1. Power BI Premium (P-SKUs)

    · Dedicated Capacity BI Launch

    Dedicated enterprise BI capacity SKU family prior to unification into Fabric F-SKUs.

  2. Microsoft FabricCurrent name

    · Microsoft Build Unveiling (GA Nov 15, 2023 & F-SKU Consolidation)

    Unified SaaS analytics platform integrating Data Factory, Synapse workloads, and Power BI on OneLake, retiring Power BI Premium P-SKUs in favor of Fabric F-SKUs.

Is Power BI Premium (P-SKUs) the same as Microsoft Fabric?

Unified SaaS data analytics, lakehouse, data engineering, warehousing, real-time intelligence, and business intelligence platform built on OneLake. Unveiled in public preview at Microsoft Build on May 23, 2023 and declared generally available at Microsoft Ignite on November 15, 2023, Microsoft Fabric unifies Data Factory, Synapse Data Engineering, Synapse Data Warehousing, Synapse Data Science, Real-Time Intelligence, and Power BI into a single SaaS experience over OneLake.

Also known as

  • Microsoft OneLake
  • Fabric Data Factory
  • Fabric Data Engineering
  • Fabric Data Warehouse
  • Fabric Data Science
  • Fabric Real-Time Intelligence

Technical identifiers

Technical identifiers unchanged. This entry clarifies scope and naming rather than documenting a rename; the APIs, CLI commands, IAM roles and Terraform resources below are the current identifiers.

ARM Resource Providers (Microsoft.*)Microsoft.Fabric/capacities Microsoft.PowerBIDedicated/capacities
Azure CLI (az) / PowerShellaz fabric az fabric capacity
Entra ID / Azure RBAC RolesFabric Administrator Power BI Administrator
Terraform Resources (azurerm_*)azurerm_fabric_capacity azurerm_powerbi_embedded

New capacities deploy via Microsoft.Fabric/capacities (F-SKUs, az fabric, azurerm_fabric_capacity), while standalone Azure PaaS providers Microsoft.Synapse and Microsoft.DataFactory remain active.

Notes & disambiguation

  • Unveiled in public preview at Microsoft Build on May 23, 2023 and declared generally available at Microsoft Ignite on November 15, 2023, Microsoft Fabric unifies Data Factory, Synapse Data Engineering, Synapse Data Warehousing, Synapse Data Science, Real-Time Intelligence, and Power BI into a single SaaS experience over OneLake.
  • Power BI Premium per-capacity subscriptions (P-SKUs on Microsoft.PowerBIDedicated) were retired for new purchases and renewals across 2024–2025 in favor of unified Microsoft Fabric capacity SKUs (F-SKUs on Microsoft.Fabric/capacities).
  • Standalone Azure PaaS services—including Azure Synapse Analytics (Microsoft.Synapse/workspaces) and Azure Data Factory (Microsoft.DataFactory/factories)—remain active in the Azure Portal alongside Microsoft Fabric.

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