Can Power BI be deployed on Google Cloud Platform(GCP) and Amazon Web Services(AWS)?
You can connect to GCP and AWS data sources, but the Power BI Service is a O365/Azure service only.
You can install Power BI Desktop on windows VMs in GCP and AWS, but published reports will go to the Power BI Service. You also have the option of deploying Power BI Report Server on VMs in GCP or AWS
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I have some CSVs in AWS S3. Those are connected with a dashboard developed in Power BI desktop. The data is connected through "Simba Athena ODBC Driver".
Now, the problem is, when I am publishing that dashboard from Desktop to make that available into cloud at "https://app.powerbi.com/" it is giving error as
"There is no gateway to access the data source extension".
How to configure the gateway for S3 Bucket data for Power BI? Please help
The refreshing using the Athena driver requires a gateway.
Context
I need to start sharing Power BI reports with other users (all users are Power BI Pro licenses).
Reports will be in live connection with an Analysis Services and my original data source are on-premise, therefore, I need to install a gateway to transfer data into the cloud.
Question
We already have a capable server for installing the gateway, therefore, my questions are:
Is it wise to install a Gateway VM on that server even though the server is used for other applications?
I don't have access to Power BI Admin Portal and it is tricky to get access to it since we are a very big company all over the world. Can I use an on premises data gateway without a Power BI Admin account? (While installing gateway just adding my account as admin)
We have recently able to connect Power BI desktop with AWS athena through ODBC,
Now we would like to publish report to Power BI services.
My query is , how to setup a gateway for AWS Athena? as I understood gateway is only applicable for on premise databases, therefore is it applicable for AWS Athena?
Thanks and Regards
Rajib
You need to download the PowerBI Gateway application and install it on the machine that is supposed to act as a gateway.
Once you have this done you need to also setup the Athena ODBC connection on this machine too, probably with a similar name. Afterwards you can configure the report to use this gateway to refresh the dataset.
Start by designing a dashboard in Microsoft Power BI Desktop with the help of the Athena data source connector for Power BI and the Athena ODBC driver.
When you finish creating your dashboard, you publish it to the Microsoft Power BI Service. To see your data on Microsoft Power BI Service, you need to install the Microsoft Power BI on-premises data gateway in your AWS account—it works like a bridge between Microsoft Power BI Service and Athena.
Finally, you configure Athena as a new data source in Microsoft Power BI Service.
Reference: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/creating-dashboards-quickly-on-microsoft-power-bi-using-amazon-athena/
How to host power BI reports in Amazon web services?. After I prepare reports in power BI, how i can host the reports in AWS so that internal users can access the reports without login credentials. I am planning to publish the BI reports on AWS so that internal users can access it on cloud.
I have a PowerBI instance and a Postgres database on Heroku. In my search the PostgreSQL connectors for PowerBI all seem to be for desktop:
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/integrations/postgresql/
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-desktop-data-sources/
Has anyone found a connector for the cloud PowerBI solution?
Thanks!
The data source "connectors" for Desktop and the service "connectors" for the cloud are different things.
If you build a report in Power BI Desktop that connects to a PostgreSQL database data source, you can publish that report to PowerBI.com (the cloud) and configure a gateway to allow scheduled refreshes directly from the cloud (i.e. once configured, you can pull data from your PostgreSQL database via the gateway into the report in the cloud on a schedule). It sounds like this is what you were looking to do.
More information about the on-premises gateway, including the list that shows that PostgreSQL can be used via the gateway for a scheduled refresh: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-gateway-onprem/#list-of-available-data-source-types
You cannot, however, start building a blank report in the cloud and connect to an on-premises PostgreSQL database. When you start out from the cloud, you can only connect to a more limited set of cloud-based data sources (Azure and SSAS). In general, you almost always want to start building your Power BI report in Power BI Desktop and then publish it to the cloud.
The service connectors in Power BI are something entirely different. They provide a quick way to connect to other cloud-based services you may subscribe to and bring in your personal data for reporting. E.g. if you use Salesforce, the Power BI connector will connect directly to Salesforce for you. This is different to connecting to your own database directly. It's not your database you're connecting to, but your data that belongs to a 3rd party service that's already in the cloud. More information here: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-content-packs-services/
I hope this helps clarify things.