Merge pull request #262453 from bandersmsft/ea-pricing-overview

MCM - Update ea-pricing-overview

Author: denrea

articles/cost-management-billing/manage/ea-pricing-overview.md

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 title: Azure EA pricing
-description: Describes Azure EA pricing overview
+description: This article provides a pricing overview for Azure enterprise customers.
 author: bandersmsft
 ms.reviewer: sapnakeshari
 ms.service: cost-management-billing
 ms.subservice: enterprise
 ms.topic: conceptual
-ms.date: 12/06/2022
+ms.date: 01/04/2024
 ms.author: banders
 ---
 
@@ -20,31 +20,45 @@ This section provides details on how usage is calculated. It answers many freque
 
 ### Price protection
 
-As a customer or a channel partner, you're guaranteed to receive prices at or below prices shown on your Customer Price Sheet (CPS) or the price in effect on the effective date of your Azure purchase. This price is referred to as the baseline price. For services introduced after your Azure purchase, you're charged the price that's in effect at the applicable level discount when the service is first introduced. This price protection applies for the duration of your Prepayment term - one or three years depending upon your Enterprise Agreement.
+As a customer or a channel partner, you're guaranteed to receive prices at or below the:
+
+- Prices shown on your Customer Price Sheet (CPS)
+- Prices in effect on the coverage start date of your Azure purchase
+
+The price is referred to as the baseline price. Here are more details about the coverage start date:
+
+  - The coverage start date is based on the usage date for the purchase order. If the usage date is the first day of the month, the coverage start date is the first day of that month. If the usage date is the second day of the month or later, the coverage start date is the first day of the *following month*. If you need to backdate the coverage date, contact your partner or Software Advisor.
+  - The price guarantee start date is set in the month before the coverage start date if you purchased Monetary commitment within the first 30 days of the agreement start date.
+
+    For example, assume you purchased prepayment with a coverage start date of April 1, 2023. Your agreement start date is March 27, 2023. The gap between the coverage start date and the agreement start date is less than 30 days. So, your price guarantee start date is set to March 1, 2023.  
+
+    If you have questions about price protection, contact your partner or Software Advisor.
+
+For services introduced after your Azure purchase, you're charged the price that's in effect at the applicable level discount when the service is first introduced. The price protection applies during your Prepayment term - one or three years depending upon your Enterprise Agreement.
 
 ### Price changes
 
-Microsoft may drop the current Enterprise Agreement price for individual Azure services during the term of an enrollment. We'll extend these reduced rates to existing customers while the lower price is in effect. If these rates increase later, your enrollment's price for a service won't increase beyond your price protection ceiling as defined above. However, the rate might increase relative to the prior lowered price. In either case, we will inform customers and indirect channel partners of upcoming price changes by emailing the Enterprise and Partner administrators associated with the enrollment.
+Microsoft might drop the current Enterprise Agreement price for individual Azure services during the term of an enrollment. We extend these reduced rates to existing customers while the lower price is in effect. If these rates increase later, your enrollment's price for a service doesn't increase beyond your price protection ceiling as defined previously. However, the rate might increase relative to the prior lowered price. In either case, we inform customers and indirect channel partners of upcoming price changes by emailing the Enterprise and Partner administrators associated with the enrollment.
 
 ### Current effective pricing
 
-Customer and channel partners can view their current pricing for an enrollment by logging into the [Azure Enterprise portal](https://ea.azure.com/) and viewing the price sheet page for that enrollment. Direct EA customers can now view and download **price sheet** in the [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com/#blade/Microsoft_Azure_GTM/ModernBillingMenuBlade/BillingAccounts). See [view price sheet](ea-pricing.md#download-pricing-for-an-enterprise-agreement).
+Customer and channel partners can view their current pricing for an enrollment by logging into the [Azure Enterprise portal](https://ea.azure.com/). Then view the price sheet page for that enrollment. Direct EA customers can now view and download **price sheet** in the [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com/#blade/Microsoft_Azure_GTM/ModernBillingMenuBlade/BillingAccounts). See [view price sheet](ea-pricing.md#download-pricing-for-an-enterprise-agreement).
 
-If you purchase Azure indirectly through one of our channel partners, you'll need to obtain your pricing updates from your channel partner unless they've enabled markup pricing to be displayed for your enrollment.
+If you purchase Azure indirectly through one of our channel partners, you must get your pricing updates from your channel partner unless they enabled markup pricing to be displayed for your enrollment.
 
 ### Introduction of new Azure services
 
 We're continually enhancing Azure and periodically add new services that are priced separately from existing services. Some preview services are automatically available, while others require customer action in the [Azure Account portal](https://account.windowsazure.com/PreviewFeatures).
 
-Some services start out with promotional pricing in effect when first introduced which may be increased at a future date.
+Some services start out with promotional pricing in effect when first introduced which might be increased at a future date.
 
-As services move from preview to general availability (GA), prices might increase as full performance and reliability SLAs are applied. Such an increase isn't limited by normal baseline price protection. Usage of those services is charged at the increased rate. To avoid  charges related to these new services, you'll have to opt out of using them.
+As services move from preview to general availability (GA), prices might increase as full performance and reliability SLAs are applied. Such an increase isn't limited by normal baseline price protection. Usage of those services is charged at the increased rate. To avoid charges related to new services, you must opt out of using them.
 
 ### Introduction of regional pricing
 
-In addition to the introduction of new services, services also periodically change from a single global basis to a more regional model as regional support for those services is increased.
+In addition to adding new services, services also periodically change from a single global basis to a more regional model, as regional support for those services is increased.
 
-When regionalization of a service is first introduced, baseline price protection applies for those new regions. However, if additional regions for that same service are introduced at a later time, they're considered new services and are offered at their own individual rates independent of the baseline price protection.
+When regionalization of a service is first introduced, baseline price protection applies for those new regions. However, if other regions for that same service are introduced at a later time, they're considered new service. They're offered at their own individual rates independent of the baseline price protection.
 
 ### Enterprise Dev/Test