Centrally Managed Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server

Centrally managed Azure Hybrid Benefit (AHB) for SQL Server is a feature that allows customers to configure AHB for SQL Server–based resources at the Azure subscription or billing account scope levels. The feature automatically configures SQL Server resources across the chosen scope to receive the AHB discount, but it relies on customers accurately entering the number of SQL Server on-premises licenses they own.

The customer selects the desired scope in Step 1: a billing account (which can contain multiple subscriptions) or a specific subscription.

Options available within Step 2 include keeping the existing coverage that has been set at the resource level, optimizing AHB configuration across the selected scope, or setting custom values for license assignments.

Custom assignment allows the customer to enter the number of owned SQL Server Standard and Enterprise Edition licenses with Software Assurance (SA) that are not being used for on-premises workloads (here, the value 10 was entered for both). The UI calculates the number of normalized core licenses by adding the number of Standard edition core licenses to four times the number of Enterprise edition core licenses (here, at the right, the value 50 was calculated).