Santhosh Kumar Ravindran announces a feature in general availability:
We’re thrilled to announce the general availability (GA) of Autoscale Billing for Apache Spark in Microsoft Fabric — a serverless billing model designed to offer greater flexibility, transparency, and cost efficiency for running Spark workloads at scale.
With this model now fully supported, Spark Jobs can run independently of your Fabric capacity and are billed on a pay-as-you-go basis — similar to how Spark works in Azure Synapse. This gives teams the freedom to scale compute as needed without impacting other workloads running on your shared Fabric capacity.
I’m of two minds here. On the one hand, there is value to having this as an option. On the other hand, one of the talking points for Microsoft Fabric is that you have one billing model. But because it’s an optional thing you can enable rather than something you must use, I’m fine with it.