Good day,

I have been waiting for about 6 years for an affordable version of api management with network capability. The 2000USD a MONTH jump from standard to premium just to satisfy security with networking was unreasonable. Now I cannot explain the geek excitement with the announcement of standard v2 with networking for a fraction of the cost. I started planning for a bright future. But then…..

Basic v2 cannot be used as the development tier for Standard v2 production. It does not have the same features, especially the ones you would need to test networking.

So we would need 3x standard tier for dev, stg and production to continue with our IoC pipelines.
That will be an additional 1400USD a month. Ok, this is not 2000USD, but it could have been a $30000 it would have made no difference, it is still un justly expensive.

Microsoft response to me so far, we don’t understand why you would need to test in development, best to have everything in production and wait for future workspaces. Then you can safely redesign your whole networking and infrastructure architecture and test everything against your production instance to cater for this mmm, shortcoming or sneaky business tactic (I am making stuff up in my head as I do not get proper feedback). 

Please can Microsoft explain this to me so I can understand. Maybe I am over re-acting and most company’s can afford this with a smile.

​Good day, I have been waiting for about 6 years for an affordable version of api management with network capability. The 2000USD a MONTH jump from standard to premium just to satisfy security with networking was unreasonable. Now I cannot explain the geek excitement with the announcement of standard v2 with networking for a fraction of the cost. I started planning for a bright future. But then…..Basic v2 cannot be used as the development tier for Standard v2 production. It does not have the same features, especially the ones you would need to test networking.So we would need 3x standard tier for dev, stg and production to continue with our IoC pipelines.That will be an additional 1400USD a month. Ok, this is not 2000USD, but it could have been a $30000 it would have made no difference, it is still un justly expensive.Microsoft response to me so far, we don’t understand why you would need to test in development, best to have everything in production and wait for future workspaces. Then you can safely redesign your whole networking and infrastructure architecture and test everything against your production instance to cater for this mmm, shortcoming or sneaky business tactic (I am making stuff up in my head as I do not get proper feedback). Please can Microsoft explain this to me so I can understand. Maybe I am over re-acting and most company’s can afford this with a smile.  Read More

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