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#Cloud
Reviewed Ops Log notes tagged Cloud, written by Michal Jatczak with source links, test context and operational checks.
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Under a Microsoft Customer Agreement, Azure credits sit on the billing profile and a budget does not stop spend past them
Under a Microsoft Customer Agreement, Azure credits are applied to a billing profile invoice and a Cost Management budget only notifies. Read the billing profile spendingLimit property before trusting anything to stop spend, and use an Azure Policy deny rule where new spend must be refused.
An Azure vCPU family quota can show ten cores free while every size in that family is restricted for the subscription
az vm list-usage reports vCPU quota per VM size family. Measured 2026-09-15 on one subscription: a family read 0 of 10 vCPUs used while all 10 of its sizes carried a NotAvailableForSubscription restriction in the same region. Check az vm list-skus with --all before planning.
A CSP partner may not sell to itself or an affiliate: Microsoft names two own-use routes instead
Microsoft's CSP documentation says partners are barred by contract from selling Microsoft or third-party offers to themselves or an affiliate as end customer. The same page names two own-use routes: a Shared Services tenant for Azure, or a separate tenant bought through another CSP partner.
The Microsoft 365 July 2026 price change is really about commitment term
Microsoft reset Microsoft 365 list prices on 1 July 2026. The headline seat numbers moved a little; the commitment term moved a lot. Here are the confirmed figures and the tenant check to run before the next renewal.
Eight Azure cost levers, and how to size each one on your own bill
Eight Azure cost levers with the formula for each, so the figure comes from your own consumption data rather than someone else's case study: an inventory script, the Advisor thresholds that actually apply, the retention and rehydration penalties on blob tiering, what a Basic log plan costs in detection capability, and a rollback order ranked by reversibility.