June 2018 Embedded reports for tiny organizations

Truth be told, the low volume pricing for an embedded application is very uneconomic.  The A1 level pricing in Azure ($11K per year) does not support more than 15 minutes of active use by a single user before it reaches it's hour's capacity and effectively shuts down leaving x's on each visual that it will longer render.

And "scaling" is not active scaling.  If you "scale" from A1 to A3 for example with active users on your site...since, say A1 only supports a short period of single user activity so you choose to scale it up as you need it....the process goes like this:

A1 capacity stops (!)

A3 capacity is started up.

A3 capacity is available in 1 to several minutes....meanwhile site "fails" at any clicks of any slicer.

So you can see, it's certainly not active scaling.

The embedding pricing and "scaling" is really unfriendly to startups and small organiztions.

Tom