Creating an On-Premises Data Gateway
The Microsoft on-premises data gateway (or simply gateway) is a Windows service that runs in on-premises environments or in infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) data sources running in the cloud, such as virtual machines running SQL Server databases. The sole purpose of the gateway is to support secure (encrypted) and efficient data transfer between on-premises and IaaS data sources and Microsoft Azure services such as Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, and Azure Logic Apps, via an outbound connection to Azure Service Bus. It is important to note that if all data sources used in Power BI reports are in the cloud (and so not on-premises) and accessible by the Power BI service, then the Microsoft on-premises data gateway is not required, as the Power BI service will use native cloud gateways to access native cloud data sources; this could be something such as Azure SQL Database or Azure SQL Managed Instances.
Once installed, a gateway can be...