| Administration |
Free licenses |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Power BI US Government isn’t available as a Free license. To access the government community cloud, each user must be assigned a Pro license. If a user account has been assigned a Free license, the user is authorized to access only the commercial cloud and will encounter authentication and access issues. If you’ve purchased Power BI Premium, you don’t have to assign Pro licenses to enable user access. Users in the organization can access reports that are shared with them as long as the reports are published to a Premium capacity. To review the differences between license types, see Power BI service features by license type. |
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-govus-overview |
| Administration |
Set data storage limits |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-govus-overview |
| Administration |
Use Active Directory groups for sharing and access control |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-govus-overview |
| Administration |
Auditing through Office 365 Security and Compliance admin center |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-govus-overview |
| Administration |
External user sharing |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-govus-overview |
| Administration |
Usage metrics for reports and dashboards |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-govus-overview |
| Administration |
Azure B2B Collaboration between GCC and commercial cloud1 |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
Although B2B Collaboration is available for GCC, the external user must be issued a license in that environment. Commercial cloud licenses aren’t valid in GCC. For more information about known limitations with B2B Collaboration for US government, please Compare Azure Government and global Azure. |
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-govus-overview |
| Report creation |
Create and view dashboards and reports |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-govus-overview |
| Report creation |
Scheduled data refresh |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-govus-overview |
| Report creation |
Refreshable team dashboards |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-govus-overview |
| Report creation |
Paginated reports |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-govus-overview |
| Report creation |
Template apps |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
|
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-govus-overview |
| Connect to data |
Import data and reports from Excel |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-govus-overview |
| Connect to data |
Import data from CSV files |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-govus-overview |
| Connect to data |
Import data from Power BI desktop files |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-govus-overview |
| Connect to data |
Connectivity to CDS |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
|
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-govus-overview |
| Connect to data |
Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 connector |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
|
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-govus-overview |
| Data management |
Data management gateway |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-govus-overview |
| Data management |
Data encryption in Azure SQL Database |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-govus-overview |
| Data management |
Data encryption in Blob Storage for Power BI |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-govus-overview |
| Cross-product integration |
Embed in SharePoint Online using the Power BI web part |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
|
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-govus-overview |
| Cross-product integration |
Embed in SharePoint Online using Embed web part |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-govus-overview |
| Cross-product integration |
Dataflows and AI functions |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
|
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-govus-overview |
| Cross-product integration |
Power Automate connectivity for data-driven alerts |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
|
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-govus-overview |
| Cross-product integration |
Power BI tab in Teams |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
|
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-govus-overview |
| Cross-product integration |
Automated Machine Learning |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
|
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-govus-overview |
| Cross-product integration |
Azure Cognitive Services |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
|
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-govus-overview |
| Cross-product integration |
Azure Machine Learning |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
|
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-govus-overview |