Microsoft Fabric for US Government GCC High customers (preview)

Microsoft Fabric in the US Government Community Cloud High (GCC High) environment provides Fabric capabilities for organizations that must meet US government compliance and security requirements. This article describes eligibility and licensing resources, the GCC High sign-in experience, service API endpoints, the Fabric workloads and capabilities included in the public preview, and the current limitations.

Important

This feature is in preview.

Eligibility, licensing, and subscriptions

Your organization must meet the eligibility requirements for the US Government GCC High environment before it can use Microsoft Fabric in GCC High. Complete the Government Community Cloud Eligibility Intake Form to determine whether your organization is eligible.

Fabric licenses and capacities determine how you create, share, and view Fabric items. Review the following guidance when you plan your GCC High deployment:

Note

Free licenses and trials aren't available in government clouds. You need a Power BI Pro license.

Contact your Microsoft account team for GCC High purchasing requirements that apply to your organization.

Sign in to Fabric

Sign in to Microsoft Fabric in GCC High at https://app.high.powerbigov.us. Other government and commercial cloud URLs don't apply to the GCC High environment.

API endpoints

Use the GCC High endpoint that corresponds to the API you're calling.

API GCC High endpoint
Power BI REST API https://api.high.powerbigov.us
Fabric REST API https://highapi.fabric.microsoft.us

For API operations and request formats, see the Power BI REST API reference and Fabric REST API documentation.

Region availability

Microsoft Fabric for GCC High is available only in the following regions:

  • US Gov Virginia
  • US Gov Texas

Feature availability

The following table lists the Fabric capabilities available in Microsoft Fabric for GCC High during public preview.

Workload Capabilities in public preview
Data Engineering Lakehouse, lakehouse SQL analytics endpoint, notebook, Spark job definition, environment, lakehouse with schema, API for GraphQL, User Data Functions, and Spark connector for SQL Data Warehouse
Data Factory Pipeline, Dataflow Gen2, Copy job, virtual network data gateway, and on-premises data gateway
Data Science Machine learning model and experiment
Data Warehouse Warehouse and SQL analytics endpoint
Developer experience Deployment pipelines and variable library
Governance and security Sensitivity label and share item
Mirroring Mirrored Azure SQL Database
Fabric databases SQL database in Fabric
OneLake Shortcut (partial support)
Power BI Power BI report, dashboard, scorecard, semantic model, direct Lake on SQL, direct Lake on OneLake, and paginated report
Real-Time Intelligence KQL queryset, Activator (partial support), eventhouse and KQL database, eventstream, and Real-Time dashboard

Fabric items not listed in this table aren't available in GCC High during public preview. These unavailable items include Fabric IQ items (graph model, graph queryset, operations agent, and ontology) and all mirroring sources except Mirrored Azure SQL Database.

Feature availability can differ from the commercial Fabric service because of government cloud requirements and service dependencies.

Current limitations in public preview

The following limitations apply to Microsoft Fabric for GCC High during public preview.

  • Private Link isn't supported.
  • Customer-managed keys (CMK) aren't supported.
  • Outbound access protection isn't supported.
  • OneLake security: Spark support for OneLake security isn't available.
  • Workspace identity isn't supported.
  • OneLake disaster recovery isn't supported.
  • Fabric monitoring isn't supported.
  • Shortcuts have partial support. You can create shortcuts to Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. Other shortcut scenarios aren't supported.
  • Activator has partial support. You can't currently create, edit, or delete Activator alert rules for Power BI reports. Attempts to perform these actions return an error indicating that the alert rule couldn't be created or updated. All other Activator features continue to work as expected.