Ties an Azure subscription and resource group to the whole tenant or to one group, so that pay-as-you-go Copilot usage (SharePoint agents or agents in Copilot Chat, for instance) gets charged. Admins create them in the Microsoft 365 admin center, can have 50 at most, and a budget on one only raises alerts.
Also called pay-as-you-go billing policy.
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Terms in this definition
- Azure subscription
Container for Azure resources that also marks the edge of their billing, quotas and scale limits, governance, security and identity. Each one trusts a single Microsoft Entra tenant, and it isn't bound to any region.
- Resource group
Container for Azure resources. Its location holds only metadata and cannot be changed afterwards, and one resource group cannot sit inside another.
- Tenant
A trusted, dedicated Microsoft Entra ID instance that stores the users, groups and app registrations of one organisation. A subscription trusts only a single tenant, although a tenant can be trusted by several subscriptions.
- Microsoft Online Services Program
Signing up for Azure directly on the website, as a free, pay-as-you-go or Visual Studio subscriber customer, gives you this type of billing account. There are no departments or invoice sections; it simply holds subscriptions.
- total_tokens
The usage field that sums prompt_tokens and completion_tokens, for example 37 + 86 = 123. Billing applies to both kinds of token.
- SharePoint agents
Agents grounded in SharePoint sites and libraries that summarise documents and answer questions, showing each person only what they are allowed to see. Licensing is through Microsoft Copilot or pay-as-you-go.
- Copilot Chat
A conversational feature of Microsoft Copilot open to eligible subscriptions with no Copilot licence needed. Earlier it carried the name Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, and some admin centre labels may not have caught up.
- CRUD
Shorthand for create, read, update and delete, the four basic things you do with data. Data-plane roles in Azure Cosmos DB, for instance, authorise those operations on items.