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Microsoft Azure ELA Negotiation. A buyer side white paper.

Microsoft Azure ELA negotiation at the broader Microsoft Azure ELA renewal cycle. The Azure Monetary Commitment framework, the Azure Reservation framework, the Azure Savings Plans framework, the Azure Hybrid Benefit framework, the AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud competitive framework, and the eleven move buyer side framework.

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Microsoft Azure ELA (Enterprise Agreement Azure commitment) is the load bearing Microsoft Azure commercial framework, anchoring the broader Microsoft Azure consumption framework against the broader Microsoft Enterprise Agreement framework. Microsoft Azure ELA segments the broader Microsoft Azure ELA framework across the Azure Monetary Commitment framework (commit dollars consumed against Azure services), the Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC) framework, the Azure Reservations framework (one or three year reservation pricing), the Azure Savings Plans framework (one or three year compute savings plan), the Azure Hybrid Benefit framework, the Azure Bring Your Own License (BYOL) framework, and the bespoke Microsoft Azure ELA framework at the upper customer scale. This paper sets out the buyer side framework for Microsoft Azure ELA negotiation, the Azure Monetary Commitment framework, the Azure Reservation framework, the Azure FinOps framework, the AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud competitive framework, and the buyer side moves at the broader Microsoft Azure ELA renewal cycle. Read the related Microsoft services practice, the Microsoft knowledge hub, and the Microsoft EA renewal playbook.

What you will learn

  • How Microsoft Azure ELA segments the broader Microsoft Azure framework across Monetary Commitment, MACC, Reservations, Savings Plans, Hybrid Benefit, BYOL
  • How the Azure Monetary Commitment framework anchors the broader Microsoft Azure ELA pricing framework
  • How the Azure Reservation framework (one and three year) typically delivers material commercial savings
  • How the Azure Savings Plans framework (one and three year compute) typically delivers material commercial savings
  • How the Azure Hybrid Benefit framework and BYOL framework typically deliver material commercial leverage
  • How AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud competitive framework typically delivers material commercial leverage
  • The eleven move buyer side framework for Microsoft Azure ELA
  • How to anchor the broader Microsoft Azure ELA framework against the customer actual Azure consumption framework

Table of contents

Microsoft Azure ELA Negotiation

  • 1. Executive summary
  • 2. The Azure Monetary Commitment framework
  • 3. The MACC framework
  • 4. The Reservations framework
  • 5. The Savings Plans framework
  • 6. The Hybrid Benefit and BYOL framework
  • 7. The Azure FinOps framework
  • 8. The AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud framework
  • 9. The eleven move buyer side framework
  • 10. How we engage

Who this is for

Chief Information Officers, Vice Presidents of IT Procurement, Cloud Center of Excellence leaders, Cloud FinOps leaders, Microsoft Center of Excellence leaders, and procurement leaders running Microsoft Azure at scale.

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Microsoft Azure ELA: Negotiate the cloud commitment framework on your terms.

A buyer side framework for Microsoft Azure ELA negotiation. The Azure Monetary Commitment framework, the Azure Reservation framework, the Azure Savings Plans framework, the Azure Hybrid Benefit framework, the AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud competitive framework, and the buyer side moves.

Used across more than five hundred enterprise software engagements. Independent. Buyer side. Built for Microsoft customers running the next Microsoft Azure ELA renewal cycle.

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Microsoft Azure ELA typically delivers material commercial complexity across the broader Microsoft Azure framework. Redress reframed the framework around the customer actual Azure consumption framework, the actual Reservation framework, and the actual Hybrid Benefit framework. Twenty seven percent saving against the broader Microsoft Azure ELA framework.

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