Overview

The CMS for Azure Stack Hub  is a centralizedmanagement managementand billing platform for Azure Stack Hub that integratesconnects technical service delivery,delivery operationalwith control,commercial and financial governance into a single solution.operations. It is designed for service providers, enterprises, and partners who need to operate Azure Stack Hub not only as infrastructure, but as a commercialstructured, servicemulti-tenant offering.cloud service.

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• Platform Administrators operate and configure the system. They publish pricing, manage global settings, and oversee usage processing across regions.

• Distributors represent the top commercial tier beneath the platform. They manage multiple partners and have visibility into aggregated usage, billing, and commissions.

• Partners act as the customer-facing organizations. They onboard tenants, manage subscriptions, plans, and usage.handle These elements are tied directly to automatedtenant-level billing and commissionsupport.

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  Tenants are the consuming organizations. They manage their own subscriptions and users, while billing and usage flow upward to the partner and distributor.

• Subscriptions are the unit of consumption datawithin isa consistentlytenant. captured,They rated,tie workloads to plans and reconciled.quotas, Administratorsgenerate gainusage arecords, consolidatedand viewform ofthe basis for billing and invoicing.

This hierarchy ensures that both technical resourcesand commercial responsibilities are aligned. Usage flows upward from subscriptions to tenants, partners, and financial outcomes,distributors, while customerspricing, experience a modern self-service interface that is branded to their organization.

The CMS supports flexible pricingcommissions, and businessgovernance models.flow Rates,downward discounts, and credits can be defined atfrom the tenant, subscription, or resource level, while commission frameworks enable automated partner and distributor remuneration. The REST API, documented in the Swagger specification, exposes all major functions for integration with external systems and automation pipelines.platform.

Key capabilities include:

• Unified Multi-Tier Management – ConsistentAdministrators, modelingdistributors, of tenants, subscriptions,partners, and usagetenants acrossare environments.modeled consistently in the system.

• Automated Billing – End-to-endUsage capturedata is collected, rated, and transformation of usage datareconciled into billinginvoices records.at the subscription and tenant level.

• Flexible Pricing Modelsand Discounts – SupportFlat forand tiered pricing,rates, discounts,credits, and scopedoverrides credits.can be applied at multiple scopes.

• Commission Frameworks – Built-in logic for calculating and distributingattributing partnercommissions to partners and distributor commissions.distributors.

• ExtensibleAPI-Driven API SurfaceOperations – Standards-All functions are exposed through a standards-based REST API for automation and system integration.

• Branding and White-LabelingDelegation – CustomizableEach portalslevel andof interfacesthe thathierarchy reflectcan organizationalbe identity.branded appropriately, with role-based access control ensuring least-privilege delegation.

The CMS provides athe foundation forto operatingoperate Azure Stack Hub as a commercial service, combiningsupporting operationalboth efficiencyexternal service providers and internal enterprise IT. By unifying consumption data, pricing models, billing, and commissions under a single platform, it enables organizations to deliver cloud services with thetransparency, financial controls required to support multi-tenant, partner-driven,accountability, and hybridcommercial cloud scenarios.accuracy.