ArticleMicrosoft Fabric Capacity: Units, SKUs, Bursting, and Throttling
A practitioner's guide to Microsoft Fabric capacity: how capacity units (CUs) are defined and licensed, how the F-SKU ladder maps to Spark and Direct Lake resources, the bursting/smoothing/four-stage throttling model, and the FinOps practices — right-sizing, scheduling, monitoring — that keep a capacity from throttling in the first place.