Permissions to buy an Azure savings plan

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Savings plan discounts only apply to resources associated with subscriptions purchased through an Enterprise Agreement, Microsoft Customer Agreement. You can buy a savings plan for an Azure subscription that's of type Enterprise Agreement (MS-AZR-0017P or MS-AZR-0148P), Microsoft Customer Agreement. To determine if you're eligible to buy a plan, check your billing type.

Note

The Azure savings plan isn't supported for the China legacy Online Service Premium Agreement (OSPA) platform.

Enterprise Agreement customers

Saving plan purchasing for Enterprise Agreement customers is limited to:

  • Enterprise Agreement admins with write permissions can purchase savings plans from Cost Management + Billing > Savings plan. No subscription-specific permissions are needed.
  • Users with subscription owner or savings plan purchaser roles in at least one subscription in the enrollment account can purchase savings plans from Home > Savings plan.

Enterprise Agreement customers can limit savings plan purchases to only Enterprise Agreement admins by disabling the Add Savings Plan option in the Azure portal. To change settings, go to the Policies menu.

Microsoft Customer Agreement customers

Savings plan purchasing for Microsoft Customer Agreement customers is limited to:

  • Users with billing profile contributor permissions or higher can purchase savings plans from Cost Management + Billing > Savings plan experience. No subscription-specific permissions are needed.
  • Users with subscription owner or savings plan purchaser roles in at least one subscription in the billing profile can purchase savings plans from Home > Savings plan.

If the Add Savings Plan option is disabled in the Azure portal, then no user can purchase the Savings Plan. Go to the Policies menu to change settings to purchase the Savings Plan.

Need help?

If you have Azure savings plan for compute questions, contact your account team or create a support request. Temporarily, Microsoft only provides answers to expert support requests in English for questions about Azure savings plan for compute.

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