Cuts egress charges between clouds by keeping local copies, for 1-28 days, of files fetched via GCS, S3, S3-compatible or on-premises gateway shortcuts. It is switched on per workspace; anything above 1 GB is skipped.
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In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains Shortcut caching in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- LSDOU
The sequence in which Group Policy is processed: the local policy first, followed by site, domain and organisational unit policies. The nearest, last-processed setting takes effect unless Enforced or Block Inheritance alters that.
- GCS
Object storage offered by Google Cloud. Alongside Amazon S3, ADLS and Blob Storage, it is a source Auto Loader can ingest from.
- Workspace
Teams in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric collaborate in this folder-style container, which groups items such as reports, semantic models and lakehouses, controls who can access them and is assigned a capacity.