https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-in-the-cloud-questions/enterprise-11-5-staging-and-production-env-setup/m-p/1657964#M922 <P>Interested to learn from experiences and keen to know standard industry practice for&nbsp; setting up a split-tier architecture with two environments — staging and production — and want to know how others handled licensing for each environment.<BR />Did you need a separate non-prod/staging license, or were you able to use the same entitlement for both?<BR />Also curious how you managed license keys between the two environments and what setup patterns worked best. Cheers</P> Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:57:03 GMT AAbe 2025-10-15T10:57:03Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-in-the-cloud-questions/enterprise-11-5-staging-and-production-env-setup/m-p/1657964#M922 <P>Interested to learn from experiences and keen to know standard industry practice for&nbsp; setting up a split-tier architecture with two environments — staging and production — and want to know how others handled licensing for each environment.<BR />Did you need a separate non-prod/staging license, or were you able to use the same entitlement for both?<BR />Also curious how you managed license keys between the two environments and what setup patterns worked best. Cheers</P> Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:57:03 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-in-the-cloud-questions/enterprise-11-5-staging-and-production-env-setup/m-p/1657964#M922 AAbe 2025-10-15T10:57:03Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-in-the-cloud-questions/enterprise-11-5-staging-and-production-env-setup/m-p/1658234#M923 <P>Hello AAbe,</P><P>Thanks for reaching out about this! We've written a KB article to help navigate these questions:</P><P><A href="https://support.esri.com/en-us/knowledge-base/licensing-considerations-for-multi-environment-000034688" target="_blank">Do I Need Different License Files (Portal for ArcGIS and ArcGIS Server) for My Production.</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Let me know if you have any other questions</P> Wed, 15 Oct 2025 20:12:54 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-in-the-cloud-questions/enterprise-11-5-staging-and-production-env-setup/m-p/1658234#M923 JustinMallinckrodt 2025-10-15T20:12:54Z