Under this Microsoft agreement, the billing account is divided into billing profiles, which each get one invoice, and those are divided again into invoice sections. Enterprise MCAs allow subscriptions to be created by code, with a ceiling of 10,000.
Also called MCA.
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Terms in this definition
- Billing account
The highest scope under a Microsoft Customer Agreement or Partner Agreement. Billing profiles sit inside it and invoice sections inside those; the roles granted here cover invoices and creating subscriptions, never Azure resources.
- Get
Key Vault permission on secrets that allows a single secret to be read; App Service Key Vault references need nothing beyond it.
- Enterprise
Any group of organisations with shared goals. Examples range from an entire company or one of its divisions to a government department, or several organisations working as partners or along a supply chain.
Related terms
- Account Owner
The Enterprise Agreement billing role in charge of creating and looking after subscriptions within a single EA account, of which there is only ever one per account. When an enrolment transitions to an MCA, this person is given the Azure subscription creator role on an invoice section.
- Azure subscription creator
Under a Microsoft Customer Agreement, this role on an invoice section allows its holder to set up new subscriptions charged there, much as an account owner does under an EA. Like every billing role, it gives no rights over the resources themselves.
- Billing offer
Whether you buy through EA, MCA or CSP. Together with the Entra tenant tied to it, the Cloud Adoption Framework sees this agreement as the top level everything in Azure lines up under.
- Billing profile
A scope within a Microsoft Customer Agreement, sitting beneath the billing account, that generates a separate monthly invoice paid by its own payment method. Each one holds at least one invoice section.
- Enterprise Agreement
Together with MCA and MPA, this is one of the Microsoft contracts under which new subscriptions can be made by code. Its billing account takes the form of an enrolment that is split into departments, then accounts.
- Invoice section
A way of splitting the charges on a Microsoft Customer Agreement billing profile's invoice, for example by team, department or project. When an Enterprise Agreement transitions to MCA, its departments turn into invoice sections.