# Shortcuts & Mirroring beat copying

OneLake shortcuts reference data where it lives (ADLS, S3, Dataverse); Mirroring continuously replicates Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, or Snowflake into Fabric for free. Fewer copies means fewer stale answers and lower cost.

Canonical: https://robauto.ai/learn/microsoft-agents/11

_Deploy Agents on Microsoft: Copilot Studio, Fabric & Power Platform — lesson 11 of 20 (DEFINITION)_

OneLake shortcuts reference data where it lives (ADLS, S3, Dataverse); Mirroring continuously replicates Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, or Snowflake into Fabric for free. Fewer copies means fewer stale answers and lower cost.

Source: [Microsoft Learn — OneLake shortcuts](https://learn.microsoft.com/fabric/onelake/onelake-shortcuts?utm_source=robauto)

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