Add Azure Partner Shared Services so partners can buy Azure subscriptions for their own use
Appropriate roles: Global admin | Admin agent | Sales agent
Azure Partner Shared Services (APSS) is a new offer type for partners in the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program, enabling partners to purchase Azure subscriptions for their own use. It creates the opportunity for partners to use a uniform method for purchasing, tracking, and managing Azure in addition to the ability to consolidate their Azure licensing and reselling agreements with Microsoft. With APSS, partners now have the same flexibility to use Azure subscriptions in CSP as they do in the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement and Web Direct programs, opening up scenarios such as: build development and test environments, deploy internal workloads, and host shared services or multi-tenant applications.
Create the shared services tenant
Go to Settings > Account settings > Shared services.
If you don't already have a shared services tenant, select Create shared services.
This creates a shared services tenant and purchases the Azure CSP Shared Services subscription, to be used for shared resources and internal workload.
About the Azure- Internal/Shared Services offer
The Azure - Internal/Shared Services subscription is a new Azure offer type in CSP accessed through Partner Center that partners get for their own use of Azure.
Azure Partner Shared Services subscriptions are eligible and can be used to purchase RIs.
The Azure - Internal/Shared Services offer can only be applied to the shared services tenant.
The primary use for the Azure - Internal/Shared Services subscription is so that you can use Azure for your own development purposes. The shared tenant you use to provision this offer cannot be used for other services such as Office 365 or Dynamics licenses.
You can cancel the subscription like any other subscription. Go to the settings > View all settings > Shared services. Select the Azure - Internal/Shared Services subscription and cancel it.
Accessing Azure Partner Shared Services consumption details
You will find the Azure consumption on your CSP invoice and the reconciliation file. It will be included as part of Microsoft Azure line item in the invoice. The detailed consumption information will be available in the reconciliation file logged against the tenant that was created for this offer.
Azure Partner Shared Services pricing
To see the new pricing file for APSS, go to Sell > Pricing and offers and select the current month's price list. In the coming weeks, a specific rate card api will also be released.
Marketplace offers and Azure Partner Shared Services
As of March 1, 2019, APSS no longer supports Marketplace offers.
| Marketplace support | APSS supported before March 1, 2019 | After March 1, 2019 |
|---|---|---|
| Bring your own license (BYOL) and free services | Yes | No |
| Other third-party marketplace offers | No | No |
Partners who have BYOL or free services deployed using APSS will not be impacted; however after March 1, 2019 they will not be able to purchase new BYOL or free services.
To take advantage of the full catalog of Marketplace offers available (not just BYOL and free services), we recommend that you deploy shared services using web direct Azure subscriptions. If you have deployed third-party BYOL and free service resources from the Marketplace previously and wish to continue using them and deploy more third-party offerings, you are encouraged to migrate the APSS subscription to web direct Migrating Existing Azure Subscriptions.
Partners, who plan to continue using APSS subscription after the March 1, 2019 and wish to deploy new third-party BYOL services or free services, can follow the instructions from ISVs to deploy these to their APSS subscriptions.