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This is an interesting feature but the pricing point becomes prohibitive for larger enterprises due to lack of tiered discounts, e.g.
- 1000 users, $2 per user per month = $24,000 a year which isn't bad for the cost of a fully managed, resilient PKI SCEP infrastructure.
- But 30,000 users at $2 per user per month = $720,000 a year - at that price point we could fund the cost of hardware, hosting and staff to support our own PKI infrastructure a few times over.
I know it can also be licensed within the wider Intune Suite but even with that the lack of tiered discount for larger volumes significantly exceeds the cost at which all the components become cheaper to do it / manage it ourselves.
Are Microsoft intending to review their pricing structure at all to make for a more compelling large Enterprise offer for individual components or the entire suite?
- Joe_Lurie
Microsoft
CraigDK Thanks for the feedback. I recommend talking to your Microsoft account rep about your concerns.
- Joe_Lurie Microsoft has a pricing issue here. PKI has been a missing feature of cloud hosted solutions. It's being sold as a new feature, but in reality it is the missing keystone that will either encourage people to adopt cloud infrastructure of keep them from it. There is a shift back to the local office for many services, especially those around deve a CI/CD as a cost reduction, and the numbers are showing orders of magnitude savings. So at the same time MS is recording record breaking profits, they are also choosing to predicate the client base by placing premium pricing on a missing core feature. The end result of this gaffe in judgement, will be very slow adoption of PKI and loss of clients at scale. I recommend you talk to your team, as everyone I talk to sees the pricing here as laughably high, and agrees that this is a missing feature, not an upgrade. I won't use MS PKI at all, unless included. We pay enough, profits are breaking records, this is just greed. Do better.
