Many customers ask me about the advantages of moving from Azure Synapse Analytics to Microsoft Fabric. Here’s a breakdown of the standout features that make Fabric an appealing choice:
- Unified Environment for All Users
Fabric serves everyone—from report writers and citizen developers to IT engineers—unlike Synapse, which primarily targets IT professionals.- Hands-Free Optimization
Fabric is auto-optimized and fully integrated, allowing most features to perform well without requiring technical adjustments.
I suppose that James is too politic to give what I’d consider the top reason: because there have actually been meaningful updates to Microsoft Fabric in the past year. I’m not sure you can really say the same thing about Azure Synapse Analytics.
The tricky part about this, however, is that–to my knowledge, at least–there’s no clean way to migrate dedicated SQL pools.