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Can a CSP customer control their own Azure subscription?

Within a fully managed CSP agreement, is a customer (the end user) allowed to create & manage an Azure subscription? Including billing ownership. (I know it's technically possible, but is it in breach of the standard CSP agreement?)

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Company A are a Cloud Solutions Provider (CSP) of Microsoft products and services. Company B (the customer company) use Company A as their CSP to access services like Office 365 and other SaaS solutions. The CSP provide this as a fully managed service. The CSP have an Azure tenancy with an Active Directory (containing all the users of Company B).

Say Company B want to create, manage & directly pay for an Azure subscription within the CSP's tenancy, is that contractually possible? Even within a 'fully-managed' CSP model? Is this a common setup?

Assume here that Company B have the expertise and knowledge in-house to manage an Azure subscription and resources held within. Company B are willing to accept all responsibility for the contents of the subscription (Databases, Virtual Machines, web apps etc), including billing/payments. They can also pay for an Azure support package, independent of the CSP if required.

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@TheoF-9100
Thank you for your post and I apologize for the delayed response!

When it comes to Azure AD and Azure Subscriptions - multiple subscriptions can trust the same Azure AD directory, but each subscription can only trust a single directory. With that being said, it's definitely possible to create multiple subscriptions within one Azure AD Tenant, creating that one to many relationship. However, when it comes to doing this within your CSPs tenant, I'd recommend reaching out to them to see if they have any particular rules against this.


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For more info - Associate or add an Azure subscription to your Azure Active Directory tenant


If you have any other questions, please let me know.
Thank you for your time and patience throughout this issue.


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