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

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

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

Turn a spend target into an open source security strategy

Instead of simply increasing consumption to hit 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 guarantees, and 53% expect rapid security patching.

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

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

• Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM): extend security coverage to the critical open source applications running above the operating system layer. ESM provides up to 15 years of security updates for the OS, plus tens of thousands of packages. You might 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: reduce maintenance windows by applying critical kernel patches without requiring a reboot for most workloads.
• Compliance tooling: access options for CIS hardening and FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic modules to support meeting compliance and regulatory needs.
• Optional enterprise support: add enterprise SLAs, direct access to Canonical engineers for break-fix and bug-fix, and guidance on operating Ubuntu and ESM-covered packages on Azure.

By choosing Ubuntu Pro, you convert your MACC spend into a maintained open source foundation across the development lifecycle.

Maximize value and streamline procurement

Retiring your commitment should be financially efficient and administratively simple. While standard Marketplace listings are MACC-eligible, many organizations use private offers to secure tailored commercial terms, like custom pricing or volume discounts, without sacrificing eligibility.

We support both standard private offers and multiparty private offers for rollouts involving resellers in the US/UK. In all cases, checking that your purchase counts toward your commitment is straightforward:

• Confirm Eligibility: verify the listing or private offer is marked as “Azure benefit-eligible.”
• Purchase Correctly: execute the transaction in the Azure portal under the tenant and subscription tied to your MACC agreement.

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

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