does apple connect auto-renewable require tier pricing - connect

I'm trying to figure out the requirements for setting up auto-renewables subscriptions in Apple Connect.
In "Subscriptions" under "Features." I created a subscription group then created a subscription and made it an auto-renewable type with price(14.99), period(month).
However, when I try to submit ("Add for Review")
it's: "! Unable to Add for Review" stating "You must choose a price tier in Pricing.
That's weird. the price is set in setting up the auto-renewable subscription.
And a price tier would imply a one time charge, not to renew?
So, in the "Pricing and Availability" under "General" that's where the tier pricing can be set but why? and is it causing a underlying problem elsewhere?
Do I satisfy the tier price request? and apple ignores it and goes by the auto-renewable subscription setup?

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I am trying to do a tutorial for DataBricks and am trying to create a single node cluster, however whatever I do it just will not work. I'm pretty sure I'm on a pay-as-you-go subscription and the limit should be 10.
Whichever compute I select, I get this error:
with this message:
This account may not have enough CPU cores to satisfy this request
Estimated available: 0, requested: 4
Learn more about CPU quota.
When I've gone to up my limit it says that the limit is 0/10 so I should have 10 avaliable?
Please can someone else me with this. Thanks
First confirm your subscription is pay-as-you-go or not. If not upgrade, it
Sign in to the Azure portal
Navigate to Subscriptions and then select your subscription.
In overview under Offer you will find pay-as-you-go.
After this if it is pay as you go subscription you can follow below procedure to Increase Azure Databricks Cluster vCPU Cores Limits
Go to Azure Portal > Clik in Search Resource Field> Type in “help” > Choose “Help + support”
At the top of the page , select “Create a support request” and fill the below information.
Summary: Services and subscription limits (quotas)
Issue type : Technical
Subscription: choose your subscription
Service: My services
Service Type: Databricks
Resource: select your resource
Problem Type: cluster
Proble subtype: select “Compute-VM (cores-vCPUs) subscription limit increases”
After selecting all the required fields, click “Next”.
In the “Additional Details” tab, click the link “Provide details” to bring the “Quota details” blade window to the right. Then, in the window:
Deployment model: Select “Resource Manager”.
Location: Select your location(s). Please note that you can request quota increases for multiple locations at one time.
Quotas: Select the VM series that you want to increase the quota. Please note that you can request quota increases for multiple VM series at one time
New vCPU Limit: Input the new quota that you want to increase up to
After filling in all the required information, click “Save and continue”.
after this select the Support format you want
Now Next: Review + create >>.

Unable to put the azure VM into the availability zone

I need two Azure VMs into different availability zones in the US region.
However when trying to put VM into the availability zone I get an error:
In the azure support console, there is no way to explicitly request the "availability zone" feature.
While doing the "quota increase request" you can only change the number of required VMs, but no way to specify that the issue is caused by absence of "availability zone" permission.
I've already tried the following:
fired 5 "quota increase request" support tickets during the last two weeks, all of them are "approved" but issue is still in place.
contacted azure chat support, who confirmed that the issue caused by the absence of "availability zone" permission and asked to create the same "quota increase request" and describe my problem in the summary. Done, with no success
contacted azure twitter support, who promised to escalate the "quota increase request" + add the description of the problem to it explicitly. Ticket is "approved", issue still in place.
So the question is: how do you unlock the VMs assignment to availability zone in the US East (or US East 2, or any other region).
I am sure it must be a pretty common task, I did it many times within different accounts. But on this particular new account it now seems impossible to do, and I wonder how other developers/administrators tackles this requirement.
I am from the Microsoft for Founders Hub team. Is your issue specific to this VM size and the region? Have you tried to select a different VM size or a different region to see if you get the same error?
Can you also try to run the following az cli command and see what you get?
az vm list-skus --location eastus --size Standard_B1s -o table
Also refer to the following documentation for further details: https://aka.ms/azureskunotavailable

How to try Translator service on free account of Azure?

Issue: The "Pricing Tier" dropdown is empty due to which the create Translator resource workflow fails as the form validation is unsuccessful.
Background: I am trying Azure for the first time so I have free credit and free testing for 30 days on this account.
What I have tried:
I went to create resource and selected "Translator"
I clicked create and then filled in the details but the Pricing Tier dropdown is empty, so I could not select anything:
Next, I clicked on "Review and Create" but it does not create as validation failed:
Now, I am stuck and don't know how to go forward. Appreciate any help that I can get.
This is a bug on our end and we are working to fix it. Meanwhile, as a workaround, can you try changing between subscriptions/regions and the pricing tier should load.

Azure Cost Management - how to match ResourceGuid with ResourceId

I have a sponsored Azure subscription thanks to our partnership with Microsoft.
I have the ability to export usage from a dedicated web Site (Azure SponsorShip).
Unfortunately in the CSV file I received, I have only ResourceGUID and not ResourceId... And I don't know how to match these Ids.
Any ideas to find the Id related to a Resource Guid?
Thanks.
Resource GUID is different which denotes the Deployment GUID of the service. To get the breakdown of which resources are actually contributing towards the costs.
If you refer to the page Understand your bill for Microsoft Azure, you can see the description for the "Resource GUID" property:
The billed meter identifier. This is used as the identifier used to
price billing usage.
If you'd like to manually know the resource name which you are being billed for you can log into the Azure Account Center, click "Billing History" and download the usage details for the current period. This information is being updated daily, and you even get usage information with a daily breakdown

Azure billing API : Resource RateCard & Resource Usage

I need to monitor our Azure spending for each of our client environments (one subscription, multiple resource group). In my research, I’ve found 2 API that I can use :
Resource RateCard
(https://msdn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/library/azure/mt219005)
Resource Usage (https://msdn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/library/azure/mt219003)
For the first one, I can obtain the price of each azure resource, it’s really interesting. But I cannot find a way to know what resource is related to a resource group.
I need at least the name of the resource. Is-it liked with the “MeterId” information ?
In the second one, I can obtain the usage of all azure resource. It’s perfect ! But how can I convert the resource usage in price ?
In the new azure portal (portal.azure.com), there is a section in a resource group : the billing part.
It is exactly the information that I’d like to obtain, using your API. Is it a way ?
For your first question, the RateCard API returns the list of the resources available at an Azure offer level (Pay-as-you-go, MSDN,…) and this is not specific to a customer’s subscription, so what you would get back here is the list of ALL the resources that are available for billing under an offer, along with resource metadata and prices, and this won’t have details like resource group that are specific to a customer’s subscription. One more point to note is that the resource metadata fields like Meter Name, Meter Category, Meter SubCategory can give customers a better understanding of what resource they are consuming, but this doesn’t include the instance-specific details resourceURI or resource tags.
As for the second question on the Usage API, this API returns aggregated, unrated Usage. The expectation is for the customer to get the aggregated usage data from the Usage API, then get the public rates from the RateCard API for the customer’s offer, and then do the operation of combining usage with the rate details to come up with a rated estimate.
The steps would look like this:
1) Call Usage API with specific time period and AzureSubID
2) Get the OfferID from the Azure Account Portal (go to account.windowsazure.com, select the subscription that you are interested in, bottom right corner has all the sub details including the 'OfferID' (e.g. MS-AZR-0063P)
3) Query the RateCard API with the OfferID, country, region, currency to get list of all resources available to be sold on that offer along with the associated rates, included quantity, discount etc
4) The common field across these two response would be the MeterID. You would get the usage responses with a unique MeterID which you can use to look up the RAteCard API (also called MeterID in RateCard) to get the exact rates that are applicable for this sub.
We are looking into another improvement to make Azure Usage API queryable by a billing cycle so customers don’t have to query by a date range, and they can just opt to query for a particular billing cycle’s usage data to get an exact snapshot of what they were charged that period, but we don't have a timeline on that yet.

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