Starting with the customer then, what is the benefit? There are two sides to every coin and this Cost Management for CSP announcement is no different. With the availability of this feature, customers that consume and purchase Azure Subscriptions via CSP Resellers can have access to the same Cost Management blade in the Azure Portal as other customers. Starting in October 2019, Cost Management for CSP is now available. The rationale for this was that customers would get their billing and reporting from the CSP Reseller, however, what if, as a customer, you just want to see what your bill is going to look like? What if you’ve got internal departments or users that need to see their billing and consumption data that are outside the loop when it came to the CSP relationship? Introducing Cost Management for CSP Accessing the Cost Management blade in the Azure Portal would return a dissatisfactory warning that Cost Management is unavailable because the subscription is through the CSP channel.
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Once created, the customer is free to consume Azure resources as they would do with any other subscription from Enterprise Agreement or Pay-as-you-Go with one major difference. The History of CSP and AzureĪs a brief history of CSP and Azure, customers, working with their preferred Microsoft Partner, would create an Azure Subscription, created for them by the CSP Reseller. As of October 2019 though, this is now available giving you access to the same cost management for CSP as Enterprise Agreement and Pay-as-you-Go customers have had. One of the primary routes for Azure consumption has been the Cloud Seller Programme (CSP) model, however, a problem has been that there has been no visible Cost Management for CSP.