Microsoft will stop Purview Data Governance support in 2027

Microsoft tells that Microsoft Fabric, its data platform, is at this time its tool for data governance. Data governance is a set of rules for who can use data and if the data is correct. Microsoft will stop Purview Data Governance, and its support ends on 12 November 2027, so customers must move to the OneLake catalog in Fabric.

How it works

The OneLake catalog in Fabric controls data in Fabric, Azure and other providers. It does this with no copy of the data. The same permissions and labels also control how AI agents use the data. The cost is in the Fabric capacity.

The proof

Microsoft gave no test results or customer numbers. It tells that a catalog that is not in the platform makes customers slow. It tells that most of its governance customers use Fabric.

What is not known

Customers with contracts, and firms in regulated industries, must speak to their Microsoft account team at this time. Microsoft tells that it will look at each condition one by one. It tells that some uses are more than Fabric gives at this time. Fabric works with other governance providers.

Insight: Microsoft makes the data platform the gate for agents

Microsoft puts governance in its data platform. Before this, agents got Azure data with the access of the user, and Amazon added an agent registry to a US government cloud. This reads as a move to control the gate that agents go through, and a charge in Fabric can make that gate hard to change. Look for other platform firms that do the same.