Microsoft Fabric Components: A Technical Overview

Microsoft Fabric is a new end-to-end data analytics cloud service that simplifies the deployment and use of several Microsoft data and analytics products and services. It combines existing Azure services and Power BI as a cohesive offering, providing new collaboration workspaces and data sharing options while still retaining the features of the separate services. This configuration allows developers to work in specialized tools to perform their part of an analytics workload but enables them to share security and storage and to connect and pay for the services as a whole.

Workspaces Are Key

Fabric workspaces (middle) are the conduit that connects the Fabric components (above) with the underlying data (below) and organizes all the processes and content for a particular workload. Workspaces, a concept taken from Power BI, are secure collaboration areas, usually created for a department, function, or geographic region. They are used to govern user access to workspace-controlled data, such as data warehouses and lakehouses, and provide a container for shared artifacts such as machine learning notebooks, integration pipelines, and Power BI reports.