How is Azure Fabric Capacity different from Azure Embedded Power BI?

Question

Hi Everyone.

So I want to embed Power BI reports to web pages.

I have used the service principal method to embed for customers using the documentation provided by MS:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/embedded/embed-sample-for-customers?tabs=net-core

Azure Fabric Capacity is used to create Fabric Capacity workspaces while Azure Embedded Power BI is used to create Embedded workspaces in the Power BI Service.

I know that Fabric Capacity and Embedded Power BI differ in cost.

Also Fabric Capacity uses F SKUs while Embedded Power BI uses A SKUs.

But apart from these, how are these 2 different from one another?

Is there some functionality present in one and not in the other?

If they both are meant for the same purpose, why do both these products exist?

I would really like someone to help me out here.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Hello Rohith Kanathur, here is a high level summary of the differences.

Feature/Aspect	F SKUs	A SKUs
Purpose	General-purpose workloads including Power BI	Primarily for Power BI Embedded scenarios
Availability	Available in Azure portal, PAYG or reserved instances	Available for Power BI only
Power BI Workloads	Included	Included
Other Workloads	Supported	Not supported
Pricing Model	PAYG or reserved	PAYG
Capacity Units (CU)	Varies by SKU (F2, F4 etc.)	Varies by SKU (A1, A2 etc.)
Features	Full set of Microsoft Fabric features	Limited to Power BI features
Use Cases	Suitable for a wide range of applications	Best of embedding Power BI in applications

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