From our experience with customers, Fabric feels like a rebrand of existing Azure services, plus a few new beta services that Microsoft is aggressively selling to their customers as fully baked. I've heard two customer stories this year where they migrated ETL to Fabric and then had to scramble to migrate again because of latency or reliability issues.
I suspect Fabric will be pretty dang good a few years from now, and that it's probably a great option today for users who accurately understand its strengths and weaknesses, but I think the way some MS sales teams are selling the platform to customers right now is dishonest and harmful.
Couldn't agree more. To me, Synapse and Data Factory (ADF) are somewhat overlapping services too (sure Synapse can do some stuff like running SQL against blob storage files). I wonder what would happen to Synapse and ADF when Fabric becomes fully functional. I hope they don't kill ADF though.
As a data consultant, I will help you make use if it, but I will not advise you to adopt it if you can avoid it.
rootsudo•45m ago
Reddit usually was the only place that reported an outage, the o365 support twitter is dead now, and the staus page per tenant is reporting is unreliable because they are manually updated.
AFAIK the SLA for fabric/PowerBI does fall under M365 if you have it.