Scale your capacity

This article shows how to scale a Microsoft Fabric capacity in Azure. Scaling allows you to increase or decrease the size of your capacity.

Prerequisites

To scale your capacity, you need:

• An F SKU capacity

• To be a capacity admin

Scale a capacity

1. Sign into the Azure portal.

2. Select the Microsoft Fabric service to see your capacities. You can search for Microsoft Fabric in the search menu.

3. Select the capacity you want to scale. The current size for each capacity is listed under SKU. When you make your selection, information about that capacity is displayed next to it. This information includes the current capacity scale under SKU.

4. Under Scale, select Change size.

5. Select a scale and then select Resize.

6. Confirm your tier by viewing the overview tab. The current pricing tier is listed.

Considerations and limitations

Scaling up a capacity that’s smaller than F64 to a larger capacity happens almost immediately. However the capacity license might take up to three hours to update. During this time, Fabric Free users might see a request to upgrade to a Power BI Pro license when they try to access a Power BI report.

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