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Allow seeing and credentialing Azure subscriptions in Cloudability even if they have no cost data, so commitments purchased in "commitment-only" subscriptions can be ingested/displayed

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Some customers create dedicated "commitment-only" linked accounts or subscriptions in which they only purchase reserved instances and savings plans but don't operate resources. This is a best practice for mature FinOps organizations because it maximizes the overall savings to the company, avoiding potential vendor "account affinity" features that might otherwise prioritize commitment coverage of resources running in the same account / team that purchased the commitment, rather than where they actually save the most across the company.

While Cloudability uses AWS APIs to display and allow credentialing of all linked accounts under a given payer account, for Azure (and GCP I believe) it currently only shows subscriptions that were identified from the cost data based on having some cost assessed against them.

Because these non-cost-incurring / commitment-only Azure subscriptions cannot currently be credentialed or seen as valid for commitments in Cloudability, Cloudability Commitment Portfolio currently cannot display commitments for customers that purchase them in a dedicated "commitment-only" subscription.

Improvement options could include using an Azure API to identify all subscriptions under a billing account and making them available for credentialing / filtering, or allowing manual entry of these accounts by the customer.

Idea priority Low