CLOUDY MUSINGS

More and more, I'm finding that I'm getting asked a series of similar questions when a customer decides to pick up a Cloud Solution Provider or switches between a Cloud Solution Provider for Microsoft. It starts with a: "What happens to our tenant? Do we lose our identities? Does someone have to rebuild Entra ID?" The short answer is no. The longer answer is the rest of this post, because while nothing dramatic happens to your tenant, plenty of small things change at the bill

Note, the companion code and corresponding full GitHub repository is located here . Azure costs are tricky enough without licensing contracts adding another layer of confusion on top. One of my long-running jokes from my time working at Microsoft was that you needed an advanced degree just to understand Azure billing, and then a second one to understand how that billing intersects with real-world consumption in Azure. What tends to catch teams off guard is that the agreement

Like all my previous blogs, code to accompany this post exists here . If you have ever tried to answer the question “what kind of Azure subscription is this?” using automation, you probably assumed there was a clean, authoritative answer somewhere. An API call. A property. A single source of truth. And if you have spent any real time with Azure billing or FinOps work, you already know how quickly that assumption falls apart. Most people eventually land on Offer ID. The Azure

There has been a lot of noise lately about Microsoft “changing support” for Azure Pay As You Go subscriptions. Depending upon who you ask, this has turned into everything from “PAYG is being deprecated” to “Microsoft is forcing everyone into CSP.” None of that is actually happening. Microsoft doesn't always make this straightforward in messaging, so my hope is to help you out a bit! This is what I want to land clearly with you all and will repeat it a few times: Microsoft is