Azure Ea Portal Overview and Management

The Azure EA Portal is a centralized platform for managing Azure subscriptions and services. It provides a single place to view and manage all your Azure resources.

To access the Azure EA Portal, you'll need to be an account administrator with the necessary permissions. This portal is specifically designed for enterprises and organizations with multiple subscriptions.

The EA Portal offers a range of features to help you manage your Azure resources, including the ability to view and manage all your subscriptions, users, and services in one place. This makes it easier to track usage and costs.

With the EA Portal, you can also set up role-based access control, which allows you to assign different levels of access to different users and groups. This helps ensure that sensitive information is only accessible to authorized personnel.

To access the Azure EA portal as a customer, you'll need to sign in to the Azure Government Portal and search for Cost Management + Billing. This will take you to the billing account scope, where you can select the billing account you want to work with.

You can access your EA billing account by selecting the billing account from the navigation menu, or by searching for it. If you have access to multiple billing accounts, you can select the one you want to work with from the list.

To access your billing account as a partner, you'll need to sign in to the Azure Government Portal and search for Cost Management + Billing. Select the billing account you want to work with, and then navigate to the Billing profiles section to view your customer's enrollments.

Here are the steps to access your EA billing account as a customer or partner:

To access the Azure Government portal, you'll need to sign in first. Sign in to the Azure Government Portal.

Once you're signed in, you can access your EA billing account. To do this, search for Cost Management + Billing and select it. If you have access to more than one billing account, select Billing scopes from the navigation menu, then select the billing account that you want to work with.

You can also access the Azure portal as a partner administrator. Partner administrators can sign in to the Azure portal to view and manage their partner organization. The partner organization is referred to as the billing account in the Azure portal.

To access your billing account, use the following steps:

Note that all information and activity in the Azure portal are in the context of a billing account scope. It's essential to select a billing scope and then do administrative tasks in the context of the selected scope.

To access the Microsoft Azure portal, you'll need to sign in with your Microsoft account or work or school account associated with the account owner of your subscription.

The account owner's email address is used to sign in to the portal to manage subscriptions.

You can request a quota increase at any time by submitting an online request.

To process your request, provide the following information: the Microsoft account or work or school account associated with the account owner of your subscription, the resources and amount for which you desire a quota increase, and the Azure Developer Portal Subscription ID associated with your service.

Here's a summary of the required information for requesting a quota increase:

You can determine the number of simultaneous small compute instances, or their equivalent, that Microsoft provides as part of a Service Prepayment by dividing the number of committed small compute instance hours purchased for a month by the number of hours in the shortest month of the year, for example, February – 672 hours.

In the Azure EA portal, you can create new subscriptions with specific permissions.

An Enterprise Administrator can create a new subscription under any active enrollment account, and an Account Owner role on the Enterprise Agreement enrollment can also create subscriptions.

To create an EA subscription, sign in to the Azure portal and navigate to Subscriptions, then select Add.

On the Create a subscription page, you'll need to fill out several tabs, including Basics, Advanced, and Tags.

The Basics tab requires you to type a Subscription name, select the Billing account and Enrollment account, and choose an Offer type, such as Enterprise Dev/Test or Microsoft Azure Enterprise.

The Advanced tab allows you to select your Subscription directory, Management group, and Subscription owners, including users or service principals in the selected subscription directory.

You can also add tags to the subscription by entering tag pairs for Name and Value on the Tags tab.

After reviewing the subscription information, select Create to create the new subscription.

If you're trying to create a subscription for someone in a different directory, a subscription creation request is created, and the subscription owner must accept the subscription ownership request before the subscription is created.

The subscription owner is sent an email with a link to accept ownership in the Azure portal, and they must accept the request within seven days.

Here are the roles that can create subscriptions in a customer's directory if they're allowed or exempted with subscription policy:

Note that anyone with access to view the request can view its details, including the Accept ownership URL.

In the Azure EA portal, permissions and roles play a crucial role in managing access and control. An Enterprise Administrator can create a new subscription under any active enrollment account.

To manage partner administrators, partner administrators can add or remove other partner administrators. They can also view all details of the billing account and billing profiles for indirect enrollments.

Partner administrators with read-only access can view billing account and billing profiles details, but cannot perform any write operations. Those with write access can perform operations like updating the billing account authentication type, adding or editing partner administrators, and more.

Here are some key write operations that partner administrators with write access can perform:

As you navigate the world of Azure subscriptions, it's essential to understand the different permissions and roles that govern who can create and manage subscriptions.

An Enterprise Administrator can create a new subscription under any active enrollment account, and this permission is also granted to individuals with the Account Owner role on the Enterprise Agreement enrollment.

To create a new subscription, you'll need to have the right permissions in place. Specifically, you'll need to be an Enterprise Administrator or have the Account Owner role on the Enterprise Agreement enrollment.

Here's a breakdown of the permissions required to create an Azure subscription:

These permissions are crucial for managing subscriptions and ensuring that only authorized individuals can create new subscriptions.

If you're working with partner organizations, you'll need to understand the roles and permissions that govern their access to your Azure subscriptions. As a partner administrator, you can view and manage the partner organization, including partner organization details, active and extended enrollments, and enrollments expiring in the next 180 days.

As a partner administrator, you can perform various tasks, including:

These permissions are essential for managing partner organizations and ensuring that only authorized individuals have access to your Azure subscriptions.

Here's a summary of the key permissions and roles:

These permissions and roles are critical for managing Azure subscriptions and ensuring that only authorized individuals have access to your subscriptions.

In the Azure portal, Partner Price Markup helps to enable better cost reporting for customers.

Partner administrators can add a percentage markup to their indirect enterprise agreements, which applies to meter rates, Azure Prepayment, and orders.

This markup is not applied to Azure Marketplace.

Starting in September 2019, partners can apply markup anytime during a term, no longer needing to wait until the term next anniversary.

To check if an enrollment has a markup published, select Manage in the left navigation menu, then select the Enrollment tab.

The markup status under Enrollment Detail displays the current status of the markup feature for that EA as Disabled, Preview, or Published.

You're guaranteed to receive prices at or below the prices shown on your Customer Price Sheet (CPS) or the prices in effect on the coverage start date of your Azure purchase.

The coverage start date is based on the usage date for the purchase order, and if you need to backdate the coverage date, contact your partner or Software Advisor.

If Microsoft drops the current Enterprise Agreement price for individual Azure services during the term of an enrollment, existing customers will be extended the reduced rates, and if these rates increase later, your enrollment's price for a service won't increase beyond your price protection ceiling.

You can view your current pricing for an enrollment by signing in to the Azure portal and viewing the price sheet page for that enrollment.

In some cases, indirect EA end customers may see minor variances in their utilization percentage when viewing their cost reports in Cost Management due to rounding calculations to eight decimal precision.

To stay on top of your Azure pricing, you can easily view your current pricing for an enrollment by signing in to the Azure portal. This is a simple way to stay informed about your pricing.

Customer and channel partners can view their current pricing for an enrollment by signing in to the Azure portal and then viewing the price sheet page for that enrollment.

You can also download your price sheet directly from the Azure portal if you're a direct EA customer. This is a convenient feature that helps you keep track of your pricing.

Direct EA customers can view and download their price sheet in the Azure portal. See view price sheet for more information.

If you purchase Azure indirectly through one of our channel partners, you'll need to get your pricing updates from your channel partner unless they've enabled markup pricing to be displayed for your enrollment.

Azure Savings Plan purchases can result in minor variances in your utilization percentage when viewing cost reports in Cost Management.

These variances occur because actual purchase and usage charges are calculated in partner prices, not customer prices, and subsequent markdown and uplift can lead to floating point numbers exceeding eight decimal point precision.

Azure rounds calculations to eight decimal precision, which can cause minor discrepancies in the utilization numbers you see.

For example, if you enter an Azure Savings Plan commitment amount of 3.33/hour and the markup is 13%, the partner commitment calculated from your value and rounded to eight decimal point precision will be 2.94690265.

This value will be uplifted to 3.32999999, which is the final customer viewed commit.

If you're an EA customer and you experience an SLA breach or a system issue that affects your Azure services, you're eligible to receive service credit.

Service credit isn't a refund issued as cash, but rather a credit that can be applied to future Azure usage. This is a key thing to keep in mind when you're considering whether to request a service credit.

To request a service credit, indirect EA customers need to contact their partner administrator, who is the authorized representative of the EA enrollment. This is because the partner administrator is the one who can make changes to the EA enrollment and apply the service credit.

Service credit issued expires when the current enrollment anniversary term ends, so be sure to use it before then.

Resource Prepayment is a great way to get a head start on your Microsoft Azure usage. You can purchase a Service Prepayment, which guarantees Microsoft will provide services up to at least the level of the associated usage included in the monthly Prepayment.

To determine the number of simultaneous small compute instances you'll get with a Service Prepayment, you need to divide the number of committed small compute instance hours purchased for a month by the number of hours in the shortest month of the year. For example, if you purchased 672 hours of compute instance time, you'll get at least 20 concurrent small compute instances (the default quota for Microsoft Azure Compute Instances).

The number of committed hours is calculated by multiplying the number of hours in the shortest month by the number of months in the Service Prepayment term. For instance, if you have a 12-month Service Prepayment, you'll get 672 hours * 12 months = 8064 hours of committed compute instance time.

Here's a rough estimate of how many concurrent small compute instances you'll get with a Service Prepayment, based on the number of committed hours:

Keep in mind that these are just estimates, and the actual number of instances you'll get may vary depending on your specific usage and the availability of resources.