Now that we’ve explored all the features and experiences Fabric provides in Part II, let’s kick off the final section of this book by taking a look at another interesting aspect of Fabric: licensing, or rather, pricing. Rather than sizing, deploying, and paying for a variety of individual services and offerings, with Fabric you are basically paying for a single product.
Fabric pricing consists of three components—compute, storage, and user licenses—as you see in Figure 14-1 (the same figure is in Chapter 1).
Figure 14-1. The three components of Fabric pricing
Compute and Capacities
When we talk about compute in Fabric, we talk about something called capacities. Capacities form the compute power of your entire Fabric deployment, no matter which specific offerings you’re using, so the words compute and capacity are synonymous in the context of Fabric. Figure 14-2, for example, shows two capacities using different sizes in different regions.
Figure 14-2. Capacity sizes and settings
Your entire Fabric environment can be based on a single capacity, or you can run multiple capacities that have different names, may sit in different regions, and may be different sizes. Depending on their sizes, they will have the ability to host a certain number of ...
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