Monthly Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program update
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What’s new for Solutions Partner designations, specializations, and other Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program offerings and benefits.
- Impacted audience
- Partners enrolled in the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program
Summary
This month’s updates continue to enhance partner differentiation and readiness across high-demand solution areas. Key changes include specialization updates that integrate AI capabilities, revised skilling and performance requirements, and streamlined qualification frameworks to support partner growth and agility.
Details
The Accelerate Developer Productivity with Microsoft Azure specialization has been renamed to the Agentic DevOps with Microsoft Azure and GitHub specialization. Additionally, the performance requirements for this specialization have changed. These changes were made to better align the specialization to the Agentic DevOps business.
Key changes
- Performance: The ACR requirement now must be met from a specific set of sub-strategic pillars: Azure DevOps, GitHub Copilot, GitHub Platform, and/or Microsoft Dev Box
- Performance: The requirements for a total of $30,000 ACR from the past three months from three customers remain unchanged
- Performance: The Microsoft Sales Experience (MSX) engagement requirement has been removed
Partners should visit Partner Center to review their current qualification status and prepare for the updated requirements.
The Build AI Apps with Microsoft Azure Specialization has been renamed to the AI Apps on Microsoft Azure Specialization. Additionally, the performance requirements for this specialization have changed. These changes were made to better align the specialization to the AI Apps business.
Key changes
- Performance: The ACR requirement now must be met from an updated set of strategic pillars for each of the three categories:
- Microsoft Foundry strategic pillars: Rest of Azure AI, Azure OpenAI, third Party (3P) GPU
- Azure Application Platform services strategic pillars: App Platform Services, Container Services, Serverless and Supporting App Services, Integration Services, Developer Services and Platform, GitHub Copilot
- Azure Data Platform strategic pillars: Modern Database (DB), MySQL and PostgreSQL PaaS, Azure SQL Core, Fabric F SKU
Performance: The requirements for a total of $15,000 from the past three months from each group of products remains unchanged.
Performance: The three unique customers contributing to Azure Consumed Revenue (ACR) in the last three months, but come from the updated combined list of strategic pillars
Next steps
Partners should visit Partner Center to review their current qualification status and prepare for the updated requirements.