The solution is licensed through pay-as-you-use metering and consumption
billing. Azure Stack Hub consumption includes both public and private cloud
workloads. Microsoft aggregates the metering information for this usage at
regular intervals. The only licensing options that can be used for Azure Stack
Hub consumption billing are enterprise agreements (EAs) and the Cloud Solution
Provider (CSP) program.
NOTE: The customer or partner is responsible for licensing any
third-party software that is used in an Azure Stack Hub tenant.
Enterprise agreements are ideal for organizations that already use an EA
for other Microsoft software programs. An EA offers complete control of the
Azure subscriptions running on the stack solution. Azure Stack Hub use is
applied to the monetary commitment in the EA, and support for the Azure
services is provided directly from Microsoft. An EA is also the only method to
license Azure Stack Hub if you want to run it in a disconnected mode. This
capacity model requires an annual subscription.
As an Azure CSP Direct and Indirect provider, Dell Technologies offers
consumption-based licensing on Azure Stack Hub to enterprise organizations and
channel partners. Through CSP, Dell Technologies provides sales, provisioning,
billing, and support. Dell Technologies bills enterprise customers on a monthly
basis, but the CSP agreement is non-contractual. Dell Technologies partners
using the CSP Indirect program bill their end-customers in the format the
customer selects for their Azure use, whether bundled with other services or
pass‑through.