Introduction
I get asked quite often how to save costs efficiently in Microsoft Fabric. One of the biggest levers is pausing your Fabric capacity when it’s not in use.
What’s important to understand here: storage costs continue, even when the capacity is stopped. You’re only saving on compute. That’s still a huge win, especially if your workloads are not running 24/7.
In this article, I’ll walk through what this can look like in practice and how you can set up a proper solution to stop and start your capacity.
Let’s quickly look at the available options:
- Manually start and stop the capacity
- Automatically start and stop using a Logic App
- Automatically start and stop using Azure Automation
- With Semantic Link Labs
Technically, all of these work. But let’s be honest, manually starting and stopping your capacity every day isn’t something anyone wants to deal with in the long run.
That’s why automation is the only approach that really makes sense.
In my case, I decided to go with Azure Logic Apps, and I’ll show you how to set this up step by step. It’s lightweight, reliable, and easy to maintain, exactly what you want for something that should just run in the background without any manual effort.
Let’s get into it.
