Power Apps Portals with data storage out of Dataverse

Is PowerApps Portal fully dependent on DataVerse Storage to store data?

Earlier the answer was yes, as Power Apps Portal was tightly bound to DataVerse. Now with the CRUD support to Virtual Tables (Entities), we can easily configure an external database with a custom data provider and make Portal to use Virtual entities for Making CRUD operations from Power Apps Portals.

Follow below article to create Virtual Table and configure that to an external SQL database

Sample: Custom virtual table provider with CRUD operations (Microsoft Dataverse) - Power Apps | Microsoft Docs

Once Virtual Table setup is up and running, set-up portal instance on same environment and start creating Form (Entity Form), List (Entity List), WebPages as usual. Be amazed to see how seamlessly the integration happens between portal, virtual entity and the external data source.

Below is the data flow

Some screenshots:

Enabling the CRUD operations on Virtual Entities has provided many more options to explore from the traditional power apps development.