Azure DEV/TEST pricing in CSP

[MartijnElfers]

Hello,

Is there any information or insights regarding the availability of Azure Dev/Test pricing in CSP? Is this something on the roadmap?

[MartijnElfers · Accepted solution]

Hi all,

During the last Licensing Update (May 27th) provided by the great Louise Ulrick, it was noted that Dev/Test pricing is indeed not available for CSP yet. She shared that it's on the roadmap for in the future. Hopefully we get more information from Microsoft soon! 

Link to call, statement around time stamp 45:00. 

https://commercial_licensing.eventbuilder.com/event/15140/occurrence/13780/recording?rauth=58.856778.30e13c058a89d7e71bf1f186d253eab3d4719bb43a919177a385fa39f0eb6a58

[JanoschUlmer]

@Gottfrid Yes

[JASA1976]

Its not something I've ever seen on CSP, but for Dev\Test always used MSDN subscriptions and the Azure credit we get from that. The other option is to scale down the services within a CSP subscription such as drop down a size of VM or storage tier to reduce cost if its not production.

[MartijnElfers]

The MSDN subscription are of course only usable for internal purposes, not for our customers purchasing Azure via CSP. 

Scaling down customer environments is of course a valid solution, but it would be nice if Dev/Test pricing will eventually also be available for customers in CSP.  So hopefully this is something on the roadmap.