Restriction on publishing multiple services from a single data source

[BradySmith]

Hello, just got an update notice for ArcGIS Online below; 

"Prior to this update, organizations could publish multiple supported services from a single eligible source data item, creating a one-to-many relationship between source items and published services. To align with existing publishing restrictions, ArcGIS Online will now enforce a one-to-one relationship between supported source data items and published services. With this change, only one service can be published from each eligible source data item type. Hosted Feature Services are not impacted by this change and will continue to support the creation of multiple child items, such as Tile Layers and OGC layers. Organizations that currently publish multiple services from the same source item will need to create copies of the source data item to continue creating additional services." 

We were wondering if this is saying that there a SDE feature class can only be used in one Enterprise rest service?  Or if there are any scenarios where organizations might have an issue about this change? We are currently on Enterprise 11.5 and use it just for publishing services to be used in ArcGIS Online. 

[ZachBodenner · Accepted solution]

Link to existing discussion, if you'd like to take part:

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-questions/how-do-you-identify-multiple-services-from-a/m...

You're not the only confused and concerned by this!

[DavidColey]

If this is true then this is a total disaster.  Are they telling me that I will no longer be able to publish different layers from the same file geodatabase source?  Or the same sde data source?  What's the problem?  Too many malicious AI's stealing publicly share resources and 're-publishing' as their 'own' resources?

I can tell anyone who cares that an insurance company has been 'harvesting' our publicly available Image Server image services via a 'pythonx' method performing an 'export image'.  When I reversed the IIS call I could see that the company does 'predictive roof failure' analysis.

In the meantime, my services are experiencing 10s of 1000s of requests per second.  All the company had to do is to ask for the imagery and we would provide it.  Instead, they decided to make their own shortcut.  

Why? Because now they can.

Will this 'service update' or 'service impact' address these BAD ACTORS?? 

Somehow I doubt it.  Probably the reverse.

Have a nice weekend.

[ZachBodenner]

I typically try to keep my thoughts: ESRI deserves criticism in many instances (we play a lot for this stuff), but they are a large company who have to constantly weigh best practice/emerging trends vs angering customers all the time and I don't envy that. 

If we're reading this correctly, there will be no such moderation. I will get my pitch fork out and encourage everyone to join me. Hopefully someone with an ESRI badge hops on here quick to clarify, because right now this is looking like Friday-bad-news-dump of serious proportions.