Microsoft Fabric Components

Microsoft Fabric combines modified versions of existing Azure services and Power BI as a cohesive offering. The illustration depicts the various Fabric components and underlying storage technology.

Fabric Workspaces and Data

Fabric workspaces (right), a concept taken from Power BI, are collaboration areas usually created for a department, function, or geographic region. They organize and control access to all the processes and content for a particular workload and connect the Fabric components (above) with the underlying data (below). Each workspace has its own security roles, administrator, and permissions, and its own set of data governance policies such as specific data sensitivity labels. Fabric workspaces can be created in specific geographic regions to meet data sovereignty requirements.

OneLake

OneLake (bottom left) is the core data storage component in Fabric and is actually a virtual storage layer on top of Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS). It automatically deploys and configures an ADLS storage account for each workspace and holds all workspace-related data stores (data warehouses, lakehouses, and KQL databases). OneLake presents users with a single view of all the data they have permissions to access, removing the need to connect to multiple storage accounts.