Update on App Configuration GA

[lisaguthrie]

We have gotten a lot of queries around our plans for general availability (GA) of the App Configuration service. We wanted to share some details with our community.

We plan to GA the service in January 2020. The biggest piece of remaining work is to stabilize the upcoming versions of the config providers for .NET and Java. We have recently refactored these providers for better reliability and compatibility, e.g. with SDKs from other Azure services. Preview versions of these updated providers will be available by mid-November. You can help! Please switch over to the latest previews when they are available – we’ll make an announcement right here on GitHub. Put them through their paces, and be sure to let us know if you encounter any issues or unexpected behavior.

We are also pleased to provide some details around pricing. There will be two service tiers available with the following options and pricing at GA:

	Free	Standard
Resources per subscription	1	Unlimited
Storage per resource	10 MB	1 GB
Key history	7 days	30 days
Requests per day	1,000 (HTTP status code 429 will be returned for all requests once the limit is reached)	Unlimited (First 200,000 included in the daily charge. Additional requests will be billed as overage)
SLA	None	99.9% availability
Cost	Free	US$1.20 per day, plus any overage charge at US$0.06 per 10,000 requests

App Configuration will remain free until GA. After GA, all existing resources will be migrated over to the Free tier. For each of your resources, you can choose to stay on the Free tier, or upgrade to the Standard tier if it is a better fit for your needs.

If you have any questions on our GA plans, pricing, or anything else related to App Config, feel free to ask on our GitHub issues page.