This is something that annoys me about Azure and its various plans. Discovering things missing that should be there or worse, were there but then go away. Rather than support everything at all levels, they add things that only work at higher paid tiers. Its even worse when you start dealing with MSDN subscriptions versus paid subscriptions. I found some regions could not deploy particular types of products (ie Azure database), despite me having old instances of said products already in that region. ie they change things and add more restrictions. I'm sure they also remove them. I'm sure there are often technical reasons (ie some Data Centers are missing required things to support products, but having things disappear from the supported list is annoying).
I think they need to make some smaller instances etc that sit between the free stuff and the smallest paid option. For example a website on Azure can be free or it can be $39 a month. What about a dotnet core app that could be hosted on a linux vm for $5 a month? Last I looked there was no way to run a website for $5 a month on Azure unless you do it yourself on a linux vm. We're not all building websites with enterprise sized wallets. ________________________________ From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com <ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> on behalf of Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, 20 April 2020 12:32 PM To: ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> Subject: Re: Azure API Management documentation I have more information. After stumbling around and around the web Portal looking for anything related to documentation I noticed a Developer portal icon. The help indicates that this is the magic place where API documentation is managed, but clicking the Publish button does nothing. 15 minutes later I discover that the feature is not available on the consumption plan I chose. The Basic production plan is ~$200/month which WAY beyond our tolerance levels. Our API usage is so low that the consumption plan would have been ideal, but in a Catch-22 there is documentation available. Now I'll just delete the APIM feature and forget it. GK
