Microsoft Azure EA Sponsorship

Sponsorship rates

Microsoft uses published pay-as-you-go rates to calculate Azure EA Sponsorship consumption.

Term and conversion to paid account

Unless prohibited by applicable law or otherwise specified in writing, when your Azure EA Sponsorship terminates, your subscription(s) under the offer will be converted automatically to your original Enterprise Agreement upon the earlier occurrence of (1) when your total cumulative usage reaches your usage cap or (2) when you reach your end date (both specified in your invitation email). Upon termination of this offer (as specified in this paragraph), your Azure usage will be subject to the pricing and terms of your Enterprise Agreement.

Exclusions

Azure EA Sponsorships cannot be applied toward Azure support plans, third-party branded products, products sold through Microsoft Azure Marketplace, or products otherwise sold separately from Azure (for example, Microsoft Azure Active Directory Premium). This offer cannot be combined with other licensing, prepaid, or credit offers, including (but not limited to) Azure in CSP, Azure in Open, Azure Pass, and Action Pack.

Payment options

This offer is available only to customers under an active Enterprise Agreement; no additional payment instrument is needed to enable this offer.

Cancellation policy

You may cancel at any time.

Microsoft Online Service Agreement

Your subscription remains subject to the Microsoft Online Service Agreement to which you agreed (current version available here).

Offer Availability

This offer is available only to limited customers invited by Microsoft to receive a limited sponsored Microsoft Azure account. Customers must be located in one of the following countries/regions and will be billed in the currency noted:

Limits, quotas, and constraints

Please refer to the most common Azure limits, quotas, and constraints. Monthly usage quotas are applied. If you need more than the limit allows, please contact customer service so that we can understand your needs and adjust these limits appropriately.

Service-level agreements

We offer robust service-level agreements for each of the Azure services. Service-level agreements are not provided for services during preview.

Resource commitment

All increases in usage levels of service resources (for example, adding to the number of compute instances running or increasing the amount of storage in use) are subject to the availability of these service resources. Any quota described on the Azure limits, quotas, and constraints page is not a commitment that there will be sufficient resources available for you to reach the quota.

For any subscriptions in this offer that are not incurring charges and are inactive for more than 90 days, we reserve the right to remove any compute resources, including hosted service(s), virtual machines, and websites. No data would be deleted, and you can redeploy at any time. We’ll also provide advance notice before removing any compute resources.

You can avoid having your compute resources removed by doing either of the following every 90 days:

1. Log into the Azure portal.
2. Access your resources via our Azure APIs.