A pointer in Microsoft Fabric that surfaces external data inside OneLake without making a copy.
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Terms in this definition
- PTR
Turns an IP address back into a host name. These records live in reverse lookup zones.
- Microsoft Fabric
Analytics platform from Microsoft delivered as SaaS on top of OneLake, offering capabilities including Direct Lake and shortcuts.
- External
API Management virtual network mode in which the gateway stays public but can call private back ends inside the VNet.
- OneLake
Built on Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, it is the one logical data lake for an entire Microsoft Fabric tenant, provisioned automatically, and the place where every Fabric workload keeps its data.
Related terms
- Amazon S3
The object storage service in Amazon's cloud. Through a OneLake shortcut, an S3 bucket's data can show up in a Microsoft Fabric lakehouse with no copy made, though such shortcuts can only be read from.