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Marketplace Rewards is now part of the ISV Success program

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Nov 15, 2022
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mbbowker
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Apr 06, 2023

Hi Brady-B and justinroyal ,

 

The rewards are great and we look forward to leveraging them as we grow. We're unclear on some of the Azure benefits though and what the criteria is for their use.

 

Could you please help shed some light on the following 3 questions regarding each type of Azure benefit on the Rewards program:

 

1. “Azure sponsorship for deployment or proof of concept: Free Azure to remove the Azure cost for proof-of-concept engagements or initial customer deployments.” 

 

What criteria needs to be met for the Azure environment to be “POC or an initial customer deployment”? We have two Azure environments – DEV and LIVE. Our “POCs” are built and tested in DEV before being copied to live. Will our DEV environment be eligible for these Azure credits?

 

2. “Azure sponsorship for commercial marketplace publishing development/testing: Free Azure to support development and testing for your commercial marketplace solution.”

 

Can you confirm what this covers? Can we use this against either our DEV or LIVE Azure environments?

 

3. “Azure sponsorship for Test Drive/trial sandbox: Free Azure to support Test Drive development or maintenance in Azure Marketplace, a ’try before you buy' option for customers”

 

Our LIVE environment is multi-tenant and includes a “Demo User” for ‘test drives.’ Will our LIVE Azure environment be eligible for these credits, or will we need to create a completely separate Azure environment dedicated solely to the Test Drive offer?

 

Thanks in advance,

Miles