How do I provision Windows Azure Platform accounts on behalf of my end customers, give them access and receive their usage bills without the customer directly interacting with Microsoft?
Today the Windows Azure Platform does not have a publicly accessible, programmable account management and billing API. All account provisioning, logon and usage reporting are managed through a web user interface. Partners, therefore, have an opportunity to build out their own provisioning and account management layer that supports all their customers within a single Windows Azure platform account owned and controlled by the partner. The security necessary to segregate one end customer’s usage of the platform from another within the same billing account is readily available in the Windows Azure and Windows Azure platform Service Bus and Access Control APIs and in the SQL Azure database offering. This is in fact the standard multi-tenant approach used by major Software-as-a-Service ISVs in their applications today. What a hoster must do if they wish to re-bill underlying Windows Azure platform usage (expressed in service hours, storage and data transfers) directly to their customers is d
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