The agreement Cloud Solution Provider partners use to manage Azure plan subscriptions for their customers, with one billing profile for each currency. Subscriptions can be created through code under it, but the DevTest offer is not available.
Also called MPA.
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Terms in this definition
- Cloud Solution Provider
A programme in which a Microsoft partner, not Microsoft, holds the customer relationship: it decides pricing, invoices the customer and handles first-line support. Azure reaches customers through it as an Azure plan.
- MANAGE
A Unity Catalog privilege allowing a principal to grant and revoke access on an object, hand over its ownership and drop it, all without being the owner. It gives no data access by itself and is not part of
ALL PRIVILEGES. - Azure plan
The form Azure takes when bought through a Cloud Solution Provider. Only the partner can set one up, under its Microsoft Partner Agreement, and the resulting subscriptions live in the customer's own tenant.
- 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.
Related terms
- 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.