The sandbox environment is used by customer developers for integrating with Equinix APIs before moving to production (LIVE) environment. Refer to Sandbox and Production for more information.

Equinix provides “Response based” caching for most of the APIs. Equinix also provides user token level granular caching mechanisms on-need basis based on the API Key & Secret.
Currently Equinix does not support ETAG feature to validate the old/new caching entity.

Beta APIs simply means that we are providing a sneak peak of our upcoming APIs for your reference to understand and test drive our APIs. We DO NOT recommend to use the APIs in Production and does not provide any operational support or SLA around our Beta APIs. 

For example, Equinix Customer Portal APIs are currently in Beta Stage. Even though we are trying our best to provide the highly reliable and scalable APIs, Beta APIs can change in contract and are not recommended to use in production. You can use the Beta APIs in test environment and test your workflows.

Yes. If you want to leverage the best of Equinix Fabric™ API capabilities, we recommend to use version 4. If you have any questions around the rich feature set, we would be happy to demo you the APIs. Please note that we are also recommending our customers to migrate from older version v3 to v4 as we will stop Equinix Fabric™ v3 APIs support by December 2023.