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ICYMI: 🚀 February Azure Update: What’s New for Partners
From expanded Microsoft Fabric capabilities and new secure migration incentives, to major skilling opportunities and can’t‑miss Azure events, this month’s Azure update is packed with ways to help you migrate, modernize, and lead with AI. Highlights include: New Defender for Cloud migration investments and incentives Expanded Microsoft Fabric features, including Fabric IQ and OneLake integrations FY26 migration incentives for software development companies Upcoming events like Azure Summit, FABCON/SQLCON, and Cosmos DB Conference New go‑to‑market resources to drive SMB and enterprise growth 👉 Dive in to explore the latest updates designed to help you build smarter solutions, secure workloads, and unlock new partner opportunities. Read the full February Azure Newsletter hereAzure monthly newsletters are now on the Partner News blog!
Go to our Partner news blog and click the tag "Azure News" to catch up on all our past monthly Azure newsletters. You can click the follow button in the top right corner to receive notifications of when the next newsletter is released. This ensures you will never miss out on updates again! Come on in and join the conversation! -jillThis Azure Cosmos DB discussion board will be migrating into the Azure partners board on December 12, 2025.
Hello Partners!! Please note this discussion board will be merged into our Azure Partners discussion board on Friday, December 12th, 2025. Please follow this new board and subscribe to the Azure Cosmos DB tag to get notified of new posts of this topic!😃Migrate and Modernize Summit! Sept 23-24 2025!
Partners, mark your calendars! On September 23-24, Microsoft is hosting the Migrate and Modernize Summit, a digital event to help you and your customers accelerate cloud migrations to Azure and simplify modernization. This event is appropriate for both partner and customers. As a partner, you will hear important product announcements that will enable you to: Transform your migration and modernization practice Leverage AI to simplify and accelerate Migrations and Modernization to Azure, unlocking new projects and revenue. Drive new leads Inspire customers to engage in an assessment using your partner organization and services. Unlock Azure Accelerate funding Activate Microsoft investments / partner benefits that drive your partner services. (Specialized partners) Your customers will learn how to make their cloud migration and modernization a reality with Keynote Presentations from Microsoft leaders such as Scott Guthrie, Jeremy Winter, Amanda Silver and Cyril Belikoff Breakout Tracks tailored for decision-makers and practitioners to see migration and modernization agents in action, as well as local tracks to go deeper on specific topics Customer Stories including Sanofi, Thomson Reuters, and OneDigital Live Demos to bring to life the latest innovations around AI-assisted tooling and products. Read the full blog hereICYMI: Upcoming Azure Accelerate Partner Webinar on September 25!
We're excited to take the next step in the launch of Azure Accelerate - showing our ecosystem how partners are already seeing success with it! Azure Accelerate is Microsoft’s unified offering that brings together Azure Migrate and Modernize with Azure Innovate, built on the foundations of Azure Essentials. Azure Accelerate gives partners access to trusted experts, significant investments, and comprehensive coverage for every stage of the cloud and AI journey. Learn more!Building Resilient Data Systems with Microsoft Fabric
Introduction Ensuring continuous availability and data integrity is paramount for organizations. This article focuses exclusively on resiliency within Microsoft Fabric, covering high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), and data protection strategies. We will explore Microsoft Fabric's resiliency features, including Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO), and outline mechanisms for recovering from failures in both pipeline and streaming scenarios. As of April 25, 2025, this information reflects the current capabilities of Microsoft Fabric. Because features evolve rapidly, consult the Microsoft Fabric roadmap for the latest updates. Service Resiliency in Microsoft Fabric Microsoft Fabric leverages Azure’s infrastructure to ensure continuous service availability during hardware or software failures. Availability Zones Fabric uses Azure Availability Zones—physically separate datacenters within an Azure region—to automatically replicate resources across zones. This enables seamless failover during a zone outage, without manual intervention. As of Q1 2025, Fabric provides partial support for zone redundancy in selected regions and services. Customers should refer to service-specific documentation for detailed HA guarantees. Cross‑Region Disaster Recovery For protection against regional failures, Microsoft Fabric offers partial support for cross-region disaster recovery. The level of support varies by service: OneLake Data: OneLake supports cross-region data replication in selected regions. Organizations can enable or disable this feature based on their business needs. For more information, see Disaster recovery and data protection for OneLake. Power BI: Power BI includes built-in DR capabilities, with automatic data replication across regions to ensure high availability. For frequently asked questions, review the Power BI high availability, failover, and disaster recovery FAQ. Data Resiliency: RPO and RTO Considerations Fabric offers configurable storage redundancy options—Locally Redundant Storage (LRS), Zone-Redundant Storage (ZRS), and Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS)—each with different RPO/RTO targets. Detailed definitions and SLAs are available in the Azure Storage redundancy documentation. Recovering from Failed Processes Failures can occur in both pipeline and streaming workloads. Microsoft Fabric provides tools and strategies for minimizing disruption. Data Pipelines In Data Factory within Fabric, pipelines are made up of activities that may fail due to source issues or transient network errors. Zone failures are typically handled like standard pipeline errors, while regional failures require manual intervention. See Microsoft Fabric disaster recovery experience specific guidance for a brief discussion. Pipeline resiliency can be improved by implementing retry policies, configuring error-handling blocks, and monitoring execution status using Fabric’s built-in logging features. Streaming Scenarios Spark Structured Streaming: Fabric leverages Apache Spark for real-time processing. Spark Structured Streaming includes built-in checkpointing, but seamless failover depends on cluster configuration. Manual intervention can be required to resume tasks after node or regional failures. Eventstream: Eventstream simplifies streaming data ingestion, but users should currently assume manual steps may be needed for fault recovery. Monitoring and Alerting Microsoft Fabric integrates with tools such as Azure Monitor and Microsoft Defender for Cloud, allowing administrators to track availability metrics and configure alerts. Regular monitoring helps detect anomalies early and ensures that resiliency strategies remain effective. Data Loss Prevention (DLP) As of March 2025, Microsoft Purview extends DLP policy enforcement to Fabric and Power BI workspaces. Organizations can define policies to automatically identify, monitor, and protect sensitive data across the Microsoft ecosystem. For more information, review Purview Data Loss Prevention. Cost Considerations Enhancing resiliency can increase costs. Key considerations include: Geo-Redundancy: While cross-region replication improves resiliency, it also increases storage and transfer costs. Assess which workloads require GRS based on criticality. Egress Charges: Transferring data across regions can generate egress fees. Co-locating compute and storage within the same region helps minimize these charges. Pipeline CU Consumption: Data movement and orchestration in Fabric consume Capacity Units (CUs). Regional data movement may take longer and result in higher CU usage. Understanding these costs helps optimize both performance and budget. For example, data movement between regions can take more time and therefore add additional cost. Enabling Disaster Recovery for Fabric Capacities Disaster recovery must be enabled per Fabric capacity. This can be configured through the Admin Portal. Make sure to enable DR for each capacity that requires protection. For setup details, learn how to Manage your Fabric capacity for DR. Conclusion Microsoft Fabric offers a robust set of features for building resilient data systems. By leveraging its high availability, disaster recovery, and monitoring capabilities—and aligning them with cost-aware planning—organizations can ensure operational continuity and safeguard critical data. For ongoing updates, monitor the Microsoft Fabric documentation and consider subscribing to the Fabric blog for the latest announcements.Register now for the Migrate to Innovate Summit
Join the summit on March 11, presented in partnership with Intel. Stay agile, innovate for the future, and maintain a competitive edge by accelerating your cloud migration and modernization journey. Microsoft thought leaders will discuss the latest news and trends, showcase real-world case studies, and share how Azure can help you fully embrace AI. Join us to: Maximize business value and build the foundation for successful innovation by leveraging the latest Azure and Intel capabilities for your workloads. Dive into case studies and real-world examples showcasing how organizations have successfully transformed their business and how you can be next by migrating and modernizing on Azure. Make sure your cloud migration and modernization journey is using the best practices and strategies featured in product demonstrations. Register now > Migrate to Innovate Summit Tuesday, March 11, 2025 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Pacific Time (UTC-7)
