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This article describes the differences between the Microsoft Fabric capacities, and shows you how to buy an Azure SKU for your organization. The article is aimed at admins who want to buy Microsoft Fabric for their organization.

After you buy a capacity, you can learn how to manage your capacity and assign workspaces to it.

SKU types

Microsoft Fabric has an array of capacities that you can buy. The capacities are split into Stock Keeping Units (SKU). Each SKU provides a different amount of computing power, measured by its Capacity Unit (CU) value. Refer to the Capacity and SKUs table to see how many CUs each SKU provides.

Microsoft Fabric operates on two types of SKUs:

  • Azure - Billed per second with no commitment. To save costs, you can make a yearly reservation.

  • Microsoft 365 - Billed monthly or yearly, with a monthly commitment.

Azure SKUs

Azure SKUs, also known as F SKUs, are the recommended capacities for Microsoft Fabric. You can use your Azure capacity for as long as you want without any commitment. Pricing is regional and billing is made on a per second basis with a minimum of one minute.

Azure capacities offer the following improvements over the Microsoft 365 SKUs.

Buy an Azure SKU

To buy an Azure SKU, you need to be an owner or a contributor of an Azure subscription. If you do not have access to these roles in a subscription, you can ask your Azure subscription administrator to create a custom role with the following Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC) permissions:

  • Microsoft.Fabric/capacities/read
  • Microsoft.Fabric/capacities/write
  • Microsoft.Fabric/capacities/suspend/action
  • Microsoft.Fabric/capacities/resume/action

To buy an Azure SKU, follow these steps:

  1. Sign in to the Azure portal.

  2. In Azure, select the Microsoft Fabric service. You can search for Microsoft Fabric using the search menu.

  3. Select Create Fabric Capacity.

  4. In the Basics tab, fill in the following fields:

    • Subscription - The subscription you want your capacity to be assigned to. All Azure subscriptions are billed together.

    • Resource group - The resource group you want your capacity to be assigned to.

    • Capacity name - Provide a name for your capacity.

    • Region - Select the region you want your capacity to be part of.

    • Size - Select your capacity size. Capacities come in different stock keeping units (SKUs) and we measure them by capacity units (CUs). You can view a detailed list of Microsoft Fabric capacities in Capacities and SKUs.

    • Fabric capacity administrator - Select the admin for this capacity.

      • The capacity administrator must belong to the tenant where the capacity is provisioned.
      • Business to business (B2B) users can't be capacity administrators.

  5. Select Next: Tags and if necessary, enter a name and a value for your capacity.

  6. Select Review + create.

Fabric quotas

Microsoft Fabric provides limits (quotas) on how many total Fabric CUs you can provision on your subscription depending on your Azure subscription type. The following sections explain how to review your provisioned CU usage in your Azure subscription and how to request a quota increase for Microsoft Fabric.

Viewing your Fabric CU quota usage

To view your provisioned CU usage, you must have an Azure account with the contributor role, or another role that includes contributor access. Follow these steps to view your Fabric quota usage.

  1. Sign in to the Azure portal
  2. Search for quotas and select Quotas.
  3. On the Overview page, select Microsoft Fabric.
  4. You will be able to see your usage records by subscription - select the following filters
    • Provider - Select Microsoft Fabric.
    • Subscription - Select the subscription you want to see usage for.
    • Region - Select the region you want to see usage for.
    • Usage - Select Show all.
Requesting a quota increase

To request a quota increase, you must have an Azure account with the contributor role, or another role that includes contributor access. Follow these steps to submit a request for a quota increase.

  1. Sign in to the Azure portal
  2. Search for quotas and select Quotas.
  3. On the Overview page, select Microsoft Fabric.
  4. Select New Quota Request. Select one of these options to increase the quota(s):
  5. When you're finished, select Submit.

Your request will be reviewed, and you'll be notified if the request can be fulfilled. This usually happens within a few minutes. If your request isn't fulfilled, you'll need to open a support request so that a support engineer can assist you with the increase.

Create support request for quota increase

To request an increase to your quota, do the following:

  1. Go to the New support request page in the Azure portal by following the steps to Open a support request.
  2. On the Problem description tab of the New support request page,
    • Issue Type Select Service and subscription limits (quotas) for the Issue type, and your subscription from the drop-down.
    • Quota type Type Fabric and select Microsoft Fabric.
  3. Select Next.
  4. On the Additional details tab, under Problem details, select Enter details to enter additional information.
  5. In the Quota details window, specify your new limits.
  6. Select Save.
  7. Fill in the remaining details of your quota request.
  8. Select Next: Review + create>>, and after reviewing the request details, select Create to submit the request.

Microsoft 365 SKUs

Microsoft 365 SKUs, also known as P SKUs, are Power BI SKUs that also support Fabric when it's enabled on top of your Power BI subscription. Power BI EM SKUs don't support Microsoft Fabric.

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