Will app service plan that doesn't have P1mv3 option ever have it?

Question

We have two identical app service plans, currently both scaled to P2V3, in the same region. One of them has an option to scale to P1mv3, the other is missing this option, which we'd like to use as our applications use a lot of memory but not much CPU, so we're currently overpaying.

There's a similar question here, but the answer suggests creating a new resource group and app service, which would involve migrating all existing apps on the plan over. This would cause down time for our users and so it is not an acceptable solution

If we wait, will the app service plan eventually have the option to scale to P1mv3? (i.e. is it being rolled out in a phased manner?). Or is it the case that if P1mv3 is missing from scale up for the plan right now, it will never be available on this plan? If it is being rolled out slowly, how long will we need to wait?

Answer 1

Hello Neil

Premium V3 as well as specific Premium V3 SKUs are available in some Azure regions and availability in additional regions is being added continually. To see if a specific PremiumV3 offering is available in your region, run the following Azure CLI command in the Azure Cloud Shell (substitute P1MV3 with the desired SKU):

Azure CLI

az appservice list-locations --sku

You can update App Service Plan using **az appservice plan update**CLI command

az appservice plan update --resource-group <resourcegroupname> --name newcliplan --sku P1MV3

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/appservice/plan?view=azure-cli-latest#az-appservice-plan-update
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76652707/what-is-poweshell-script-to-create-app-service-plan-for-p1mv3