Microsoft Fabric’s unified pricing poses a challenge to Google and Amazon

Microsoft has promoted its new pricing policy for its Microsoft Fabric suite, a cloud-based system for data workloads and analytics, which will use a more simplified payment method based on the amount of storage and compute used by a customer. Microsoft’s move places pressure on rivals Amazon and Google, which charge users separately for discreet analytics and data services, although Google’s offerings, such as its Google DataPlex, are not as comprehensive, according to analysts. Microsoft’s Fabric suite includes analytics provider Azure Synapse Analytics and business intelligence tool Power BI, which have been integrated into the unified data architecture provided by the cloud-based service.