Create an Enterprise Agreement subscription

This article helps you create an Enterprise Agreement (EA) subscription for yourself or for someone else in your current Microsoft Entra directory/tenant. You can create another subscription to avoid hitting subscription quota limits, to create separate environments for security, or to isolate data for compliance reasons.

If you want to create subscriptions for Microsoft Customer Agreements, see Create a Microsoft Customer Agreement subscription. If you're a Microsoft Partner and you want to create a subscription for a customer, see Create a subscription for a partner's customer. Or, if you have a Microsoft Online Service Program (MOSP) billing account, also called pay-as-you-go, you can create subscriptions starting in the Azure portal.

To learn more about billing accounts and identify your billing account type, see View billing accounts in Azure portal.

Permission required to create Azure subscriptions

You need the following permissions to create subscriptions for an EA:

• An Enterprise Administrator can create a new subscription under any active enrollment account.
• Account Owner role on the Enterprise Agreement enrollment.

For more information, see Understand Azure Enterprise Agreement administrative roles in Azure.

Create an EA subscription

A user with Enterprise Administrator or Account Owner permissions can use the following steps to create a new EA subscription.

1. Sign in to the Azure portal.
2. Navigate to Subscriptions and then select Add.
   
3. On the Create a subscription page, on the Basics tab, type a Subscription name.
4. Select the Billing account where the new subscription gets created.
5. Select the Enrollment account where the subscription gets created.
6. Select an Offer type, select Enterprise Dev/Test if the subscription is for development or testing workloads. Otherwise, select Azure Enterprise.
   
7. Select the Advanced tab.
8. Select your Subscription directory. It's the Microsoft Entra ID where the new subscription gets created.
9. Select a Management group. It's the Microsoft Entra management group that the new subscription is associated with. You can only select management groups in the current directory.
10. Select more or more Subscription owners. You can select only users or service principals in the selected subscription directory. You can't select guest directory users. If you select a service principal, enter its App ID.
    
11. Select the Tags tab.
12. Enter tag pairs for Name and Value.
    
13. Select Review + create. You should see a message stating Validation passed.
14. Verify that the subscription information is correct, then select Create. You get a notification that the subscription is getting created.

After the new subscription is created, the account owner can see it in on the Subscriptions page.

Can't view subscription

If you created a subscription but can't find it in the Subscriptions list view, a view filter might be applied.

To clear the filter and view all subscriptions:

1. In the Azure portal, navigate to Subscriptions.
2. At the top of the list, select the Subscriptions filter item.
3. At the top of the subscriptions filter box, select All. At the bottom of the subscriptions filter box, clear Show only subscriptions selected in the global subscriptions filter.
   
4. Select Apply to close the box and refresh the list of subscriptions.

Create an Azure subscription programmatically

You can also create subscriptions programmatically. For more information, see Create Azure subscriptions programmatically.

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Next steps

• Add or change Azure subscription administrators
• Move resources to new resource group or subscription
• Create management groups for resource organization and management
• Cancel your subscription for Azure