Why you should withdraw your Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC) with Ubuntu Pro

When your organization first signed its Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC), it was a strategic move to unlock better pricing and enable cloud growth. However, meeting that commitment effectively requires planning. Organizations often look for ways to retire their MACC that drives strategic value rather than simply increasing consumption to meet a deadline.

The goal is to fulfill your commitment while delivering long-term benefits for the business.

With Ubuntu Pro in the Azure Marketplace, you can withdraw your MACC at 100% of the purchase amount before tax. In practice, this allows you to meet consumption goals on your standard Azure invoice, while securing your open source supply chain and automating compliance.

Instead of simply increasing consumption to meet a target, effective IT and FinOps teams align their MACC with broader strategic goals. Open source support and security maintenance is a priority for enterprises, as a recent Linux Foundation report shows: 54% of enterprises want long-term warranties, and 53% expect fast security recovery.

Ubuntu Pro offers both. By choosing software that strengthens your security and operations, you can withdraw your MACC while funding capabilities that your organization prioritizes.

Awarding MACC to Ubuntu Pro is a direct investment in your open source estate:

• Extended Security Maintenance (ESM): extends security coverage to the critical open source applications that run above the operating system layer. ESM provides up to 15 years of security updates for the operating system, plus tens of thousands of packages. You may already see alerts for these missing updates in your Azure portal – learn how to check your exposure in our blog: (A complete security view for every Ubuntu LTS VM on Azure).
• Kernel Livepatch: reduces maintenance windows by applying critical kernel patches without requiring a reboot for most workloads.
• Compliance Tools: access options for CIS hardening and FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic modules to meet compliance and regulatory needs.
• Optional enterprise support: adds enterprise SLAs, direct access to canonical engineers for breaking and bug fixing, and guidance on running Ubuntu and ESM covered packages on Azure.

By choosing Ubuntu Pro, you turn your MACC spend into a preserved open source foundation across the entire development lifecycle.

Retiring your commitment should be financially efficient and administratively simple. While standard Marketplace listings are MACC-qualifying, many organizations use pbids compete to ensure customized commercial terms, such as customized pricing or volume discounts, without being eligible.

We support both standard private offers and multi-party private offers for deployments involving US/UK resellers. In all cases, it is simple to check that your purchase counts towards your commitment:

• Confirm eligibility: verify that the offer or private offer is marked as “Azure Benefit Qualifying.”
• Buy correctly: execute the transaction in the Azure portal under the tenant and subscription linked to your MACC agreement.

This approach guarantees that every dollar spent meets your financial goals while delivering the specific security coverage your organization needs.

Ready to align Ubuntu Pro with your MACC? Talk to our team.