Support full Azure MCA credentialing at Billing Profile level in Cloudability

Cloudability currently requires 'Billing Account Reader' access for Azure Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) tenants in order to retrieve custom pricing, commitments, and enable all Cloudability features for Azure.

However, large enterprise Azure MCA customers operate with:

• One Billing Account (contract/payment boundary)

• Multiple Billing Profiles, each aligned to a legally and operationally independent business entity

This structure follows Microsoft’s recommended least‑privilege model. In many organisations, individual billing profile owners:

• Cannot grant Billing Account–level access

• Are explicitly prohibited from doing so by central Finance, Security, or SAM (Software Asset Management) teams

As a result, Azure cannot be fully onboarded into Cloudability using Billing Profile level at this stage.

When Azure is credentialed in Cloudability using Billing Profile–scope (without Billing Account Reader access):

Available data:

• Azure Cost & Usage data (actual and amortized via cost exports)

• Azure Subscription‑level utilization data

Known limitations:

• Custom pricing ingestion at Billing Profile level is unavailable (defaults to public pricing)

• Commitment Portfolio visibility is unavailable

• Reservations and Savings Plans recommendations are unavailable

• Rightsizing defaults to public pricing

• Governance and Workload Planning features that rely on pricing services will also default to public pricing

Therefore, full Billing Profile credentialing is required to overcome the limitations mentioned above for Azure MCA customers.