Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog

New Shortcut Type for Azure Blob Storage in OneLake shortcuts

We’re excited to announce a new shortcut type for Azure Blob Storage in Microsoft Fabric! As a key platform for storing unstructured data — from images and documents to logs and media — Azure Blob Storage plays a vital role in powering AI and advanced analytics solutions. With this new shortcut type, you can easily … Continue reading “New Shortcut Type for Azure Blob Storage in OneLake shortcuts”

What’s new with OneLake shortcuts

Microsoft Fabric shortcuts enable organizations to unify their data across various domains and clouds by creating a single virtual data lake. These shortcuts act as symbolic links to data in different storage locations, simplifying access and reducing the need for multiple copies. OneLake serves as the central hub for all analytics data. By using OneLake … Continue reading “What’s new with OneLake shortcuts”

Creating a shortcut to a VPC-protected Google Cloud Storage bucket

This guide will cover how to create a OneLake shortcut to a VPC-protected Google Cloud Storage (GCS) bucket. Why use the on-premises-data gateway? Today, organizations are protecting data by leveraging network security capabilities like virtual networks, firewalls and virtual protected clouds (VPC). To access data securely and to provide a bridge between protected environments and … Continue reading “Creating a shortcut to a VPC-protected Google Cloud Storage bucket”

Creating a shortcut to a VPC-protected Amazon S3 bucket

This guide will show you how to create a OneLake shortcut to a VPC-protected Amazon S3 bucket. Why use the On-premises-data gateway? Today, organizations are protecting data by leveraging network security capabilities like virtual networks, firewalls and virtual protected clouds (VPC). To access data securely and to provide a bridge between protected environments and Microsoft … Continue reading “Creating a shortcut to a VPC-protected Amazon S3 bucket”

Fast copy in Dataflows Gen2

Dataflows help with ingesting and transforming data. With the introduction of dataflow scale-out with the SQL DW compute, we are able to transform your data at scale. However, to do this at scale, your data needs to be ingested first. With the introduction of Fast copy, you can ingest terabytes of data with the easy … Continue reading “Fast copy in Dataflows Gen2”