I was reading through this Message to existing customers from Microsoft, and just had a question you might be able to answer.
Each additional production environment comes with 3 additional sandbox environments and 4 GB of extra database capacity.
I was not aware they had any stipulations on database size. Does this mean 4Gb per sandbox database, or per production environment? And does this mean there are limitations to the size of a database without incurring more cost to the customer? The reason I ask is because we are looking to make a change to allow users to add multiple pictures for each job. This would likely increase the size of the database, going from possibly 1 picture per job to 3 or 4. How significant a size change will obviously depend on the size of their picture files and number of total jobs with multiple pictures, but thought I would check on this before we got too far down that road.
Message to existing customers:
With 2020 release wave 2, we're introducing the ability for customers to buy additional Business Central production environments to expand their business. More environments will open up new opportunities like creating more business branches, moving into more countries, or expanding within their current country.
Every new Business Central customer with Business Central Premium or Essential subscriptions will be able to use 1 production environment and 3 sandbox environments, at no extra charge. Customers can then choose to purchase an unlimited number of additional production environments, if needed, via their CSP partner. Each additional production environment comes with 3 additional sandbox environments and 4 GB of extra database capacity. Production and sandbox environments can be created and used in any country where Business Central service is available. Additional environments can be created by the customers via the Business Central Admin Center.
Existing customers with Business Central Essentials or Premium subscriptions purchased before October 1st 2020 will keep their existing environment entitlements for a period of 1 year until October 1st 2021, or until their subscription is renewed or ended, whichever occurs latest. This won't increase their overall database storage capacity and will not enable extra sandbox environments. These benefits are only activated with the production environments purchased by the customers separately.
