For organisations on Azure
Same Azure. Lower bill.
Is your Enterprise Agreement ending, or do you pay for Azure by credit card? Answer three questions and see what you save, which route suits you and how Intercept handles the switch for you.
- Discount on all your usage
- Costs per resource in the portal
- Support included, 24/7 on request
Your environment stays as it is. From now on, your invoice comes from Intercept.
Your plan
How to go about it
Your environment stays as it is; from now on, your invoice comes from Intercept.
Intercept carries out an administrative migration: only the billing moves. Microsoft grants this permission only to partners approved for it; Intercept is an Azure Expert MSP and has done this since 2020. You will not notice a thing: your resources keep running without interruption, subscription and resource IDs stay the same and existing permissions remain in place. Usage up to the transfer appears on your old invoice, usage after it on Intercept's. Microsoft, 21 August 2026
Schedule
Today: 17 October 2026Enter the end date of your EA and we count back from that date. Below is a plan starting today.
Week 1 Technical check
Subscriptions, reservations, savings plans, Marketplace and tenants. The list is usually short.Week 2 Calculation and advice
Based on your actual usage, with MCA-E alongside. You decide.Week 3 Approval and preparation
We get everything ready. You only need to accept the partner relationship and the Microsoft Customer Agreement.Week 4 Transfer
Just before the transfer, we work with you to save a copy of your cost history and invoices. Your administrator approves the transfer in the Azure portal, and from then on Intercept bills you.
What we take care of
Saving cost history and invoices
Cost and usage data and invoices do not move with the transfer. Just before the transfer, we save a copy of them together with you. Microsoft, 21 August 2026
Preparing the Microsoft Customer Agreement and Azure plan
Your organisation accepts the Microsoft Customer Agreement and we set up an Azure plan. This is a requirement for the transfer. Microsoft, 21 August 2026
Moving support to Intercept
After the transfer, you no longer need a Microsoft support plan: support is included with Intercept. We agree with you when to cancel it. Microsoft, 21 August 2026
Carrying over quotas
Quota increases move with you. If you never had an increase, the CSP default applies; we request extra quota in advance. Microsoft, 17 August 2026
Replacing the Power BI connection
Do you use the Cost Management connector in Power BI? It stops working after the transfer. We set up another source in advance, such as exports from Cost Management. Microsoft, 21 August 2026
Estimate based on usage discount compared with the list price. Reservations, savings plans and optimisation are not included; they come in your calculation.
What is certain
What Microsoft says
With a transfer from a direct EA or MCA-E, your resources, IDs and permissions stay as they are. That is what Microsoft's documentation says.
When a direct EA or MCA-E is transferred to CSP, Azure services keep running without interruption. Only the billing relationship changes.
Source: Microsoft, 21 August 2026
Subscription IDs and resource IDs stay the same during the transfer. All resources, such as virtual machines, disks and websites, move with it.
Source: Microsoft, 21 August 2026
Existing access permissions and Azure RBAC assignments stay intact during the transfer. The partner does not automatically get access to the environment.
Source: Microsoft, 21 August 2026
Previously applied quota increases move to the CSP subscription. Without an earlier increase, the default CSP limit applies.
Source: Microsoft, 17 August 2026
Cloud and AI
Room for AI, control over your costs
AI brings new opportunities and new cost items: models in Microsoft Foundry, data in Microsoft Fabric and Copilot in Microsoft 365. Intercept specialises in Azure costs and helps you keep your cloud and AI costs under control. So your budget goes to innovation instead of waste.
Microsoft Foundry
You pay for models per token or as fixed capacity. Together we choose what fits your usage, and we monitor consumption per application.
Microsoft Fabric
You can scale Fabric capacity up and down, and pause it when you are not using it. We match the capacity to your actual usage.
Microsoft 365 and Copilot
Copilot licences pay off most for the people who actually use them. We help you match your licences to usage.
Everything in one place
Azure, AI and data costs per resource in the customer portal, with budgets and alerts. You see an increase before it shows up on your invoice.
Customer story
TrueLime runs 90% of its solutions on Azure. When Microsoft phased out TrueLime's EA, the company asked three parties for a proposal.
TrueLime chose Intercept for the flexibility of monthly contracts, and because Intercept is an Azure Expert MSP. Since 2022, TrueLime has offered its own customers 24/7 hosting support through Intercept.
- Azure Expert MSPOne of only a few worldwide
- 70+Azure specialists
- 3+Microsoft Azure MVPs
- 200+SaaS companies as customers
- 1,000+organisations helped
- Since 2020EA switches to CSP
- AIMMS
- Mavim
- Kruitbosch
- CSD
- Enovation
- TrueLime
All about your Azure invoice
Every fact with a date and a source
Your EA is ending
What has changed since 2025, three routes side by side and a plan from your end date.
From credit card to invoice
What Microsoft requires, and how it works through CSP, with a discount and an invoice from Intercept.
Azure discount
The discount tiers with worked examples, and what you can save on top.
What changes
What stays, what does not move automatically and what Intercept arranges in advance. According to Microsoft Learn.
For Microsoft partners
Your customer to CSP, we do the migration. At a fixed price.
All questions
Short, honest answers, also when they do not work in our favour.
Prefer your real numbers?
Send your situation and your latest Azure invoice. Within two working days of sending your invoice, you have a calculation based on your actual usage, with the alternatives alongside.