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Zach Saltzman
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Jul 27, 2023

How are you selling Azure Reserved Instances or Azure Savings Plans?

In the past Microsoft took away any incentive and margin for CSP Partners to sell Azure Reserved Instances and from my understanding, it's the same story for Azure Savings Plan.   With standard A...
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Zach Saltzman
Copper Contributor
Dec 05, 2023
Nope ... unfortunately I haven't received any responses here or elsewhere. I opened a Cloud Consult as well, which was not helpful in answering this question.
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    JillArmourMicrosoft
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    Dec 06, 2023

    LicensingConcierge1 are you able to help with this one by any chance? Not sure if this is your area of expertise or not. Thanks! 

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      LicensingConcierge1
      Former Employee
      Dec 27, 2023

      JillArmourMicrosoft Zach Saltzman 

       

      Since this topic is related to incentives, this should have been moved to the Partner Benefits Community with applicable labels so that others can easily find your post :smile:

       

      Regards,

      Microsoft CSP Licensing Concierge

    • LicensingConcierge1's avatar
      LicensingConcierge1
      Former Employee
      Dec 06, 2023

      Hi JillArmourMicrosoft 

       

      This is not something that the Licensing Concierge would responde to as there's no pricing/licensing/incentive question.

       

      The OP addressed this post to community partners to ask for their experiences/feedback:

       


      Regards,

      Microsoft CSP Licensing Concierge

       

       

       

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        Zach Saltzman
        Copper Contributor
        Dec 27, 2023

        LicensingConcierge1 On this topic, could you help me by answering the following questions?

         

        1. Are there any partner incentives, rebates, or credits on Azure Reserved Instances?

         

        2. Are there any partner incentives, rebates, or credits on Azure Savings Plans?

         

        JillArmourMicrosoft  - As I understand it, the answer to both questions in 'No' which was the reason I reached out originally to see if there was guidance from other partners, or guidance from Microsoft in positioning RI and Savings Plans to customers knowing that it's potentially a worse financial deal for partners. Thanks in advance.

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