Wny is there no support for Dynamic Map Services?

[SzymonPiskula1]

Hello Esri Team,

ArcGIS Online does not support Dynamic Map Service. This has been suggested as one of  Ideas for the product.

My question is why has Esri Inc decided NOT to enable such capability for ArcGIS Online? I do understand it supports hosted feature services and tiled services and I am not looking for alternatives. I am trying to understand what was the thinking behind deciding on not giving the option to AGOL's users. Did it prove to be too CPU intense? Not scaling too well?

Regards,
Szymon

[BryanChastain]

This is something I've wondered for a long time as well and have never been able to find an answer.

[DaveTenney]

I have asked myself this same question so many times...

The only thing I can think of is that if they added that support to AGOL then there would be no need to buy ArcGIS for Server.

dave