New RBAC roles for Azure savings plan for compute now available

With Azure savings plan for compute organizations can reduce their usage cost by up to 65% off list pay-as-you-go rates, by making an hourly spend commitment for 1 or 3 years. This is a powerful cost savings offering. Today, we are pleased to announce the availability of 3 new tenant-level, role-based access control (RBAC) roles - Savings plan purchaser, Savings plan administrator and Savings plan reader, that enable organizations to delegate who can purchase, manage, and view savings plans. * **Savings plan purchaser** can [purchase](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/savings-plan/buy-savings-plan), [manage ](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/savings-plan/manage-savings-plan)and [analyze](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/savings-plan/utilization-cost-reports) savings plans in their Microsoft Entra tenant (directory) * This role enables users who do not have billing admin or subscription owner roles to purchase savings plans - either as a new purchase or as part of a [reservation trade-in](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/savings-plan/reservation-trade-in?branch=pr-en-us-271067). * Organizations can limit savings plan purchases to only billing admins by disabling the _Azure Savings Plan_ policy in the Azure portal. Learn more [here](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/savings-plan/buy-savings-plan#who-can-buy-a-savings-plan). * **Savings plan administrator** can manage savings plans in their directory. * **Savings plan reader** has read-only access to savings plans in their directory. * Pricing & Offerings