New Dev SKU for Azure Integration Service Environment (ISE)

Last week, Microsoft responded to numerous requests from the community by announcing a new developer tier offering for Integration Service Environments (ISE). The ISE has been generally available for several weeks, but the single available SKU prior to this announcement carried a hefty price tag.

I had the great honour and privilege of speaking about ISE at the INTEGRATE 2019 conference at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, WA (USA) last month.  My topic was Four Scenarios for Using an Integration Service Environment, which attempted to shed some light on what type of situations would justify using this flat-cost product as opposed to the consumption-based serverless offering of Logic Apps.

While this presentation hopefully piqued interest in the offering, one of the burning questions from the attendees was “When will a lower cost developer SKU be available so we can try it out?”  All Microsoft was able to say at that point was, “Soon.”  Well, at least they were right, as it is now available only a few weeks later!

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