In November 2019 Microsoft made some changes to buying Azure through the Enterprise Enrollments which affect commercial customers in countries where Microsoft bill Enterprise Agreement customers directly rather than through partners. As part of the initiative to move to the…
Customers can buy the Azure services in an Enterprise Agreement through either the two Enterprise Enrollments or the Server and Cloud Enrollment. Azure components availability In terms of Azure, the following components are available through the EA enrollments: Azure User…
When an ISV partner publishes their offer, it is available through the public Azure Marketplace. In addition, a partner can choose to make their offer available through CSP, which they do as part of the solution publishing process. Here’s a…
When a customer buys an ISV solution through the Azure Marketplace they need to pay for two things: firstly, for the “solution” part – the Intellectual Property that the ISV has built, and secondly, for the Azure services that will…
The Azure Marketplace is where Microsoft and partners sell solutions that are built on Azure. Partners who build these solutions are often known as Independent Software Vendors, or ISVs. Consultancy services based on Azure may also be listed on the…
Customers who deploy Azure Virtual Desktop solutions need to pay for two distinct parts of the solution: Azure infrastructure costs and user access rights. There are different options for licensing users, dependent on whether the AVD solution is aimed at…
The Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) service in Azure allows organizations to take advantage of a secure remote virtual desktop and app experience, enabling them to deliver virtual desktops to their users or to stream applications. It was launched with the…
Introduction Sometimes a SQL Server workload has high memory, storage and I/O bandwidth requirements but isn’t core intensive. There are special virtual machines available in Azure where the virtual core count is constrained; this reduces the cost of the software…
Introduction When Microsoft has unused virtual machine capacity, they offer special pricing for the particular virtual machine types in the specific regions with the spare capacity. This is “spot” – at that moment in time – pricing, and thus the…
IIn this section we’ll take a look at two specialist types of virtual machines which can be used to save money for particular types of workloads: Constrained core virtual machines Azure Spot virtual machines