CrowdStrike and Microsoft Corp. has announced an expansion of their strategic alliance that allows organizations of all sizes to purchase the CrowdStrike Falcon platform on Microsoft Marketplace using their existing Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment. Marketplace streamlines procurement and billing, helping organizations accelerate deployment of Falcon’s unified, AI-native protection across endpoints, cloud workloads, identity, AI, and data to stop breaches.
With this expanded access, customers can:
- Accelerate time-to-protection by simplifying procurement through Marketplace.
- Optimize committed cloud spend by applying CrowdStrike purchases toward Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment.
- Reduce operational overhead by consolidating purchasing and billing.
“Security is the foundation for AI Transformation,” said Judson Althoff, CEO of Microsoft’s commercial business. “By enabling customers to apply their Azure Consumption Commitment in Microsoft Marketplace toward the Falcon platform, we are providing the financial flexibility they need to optimize cloud spend while adopting a rigorous security posture.”
“Adversaries don’t wait for budget cycles, and neither should security teams,” said George Kurtz, CEO and founder of CrowdStrike. “By enabling customers to use Azure Consumption Commitment for CrowdStrike, we remove procurement friction and maximize the impact of the cloud investment they already have to stop breaches with the Falcon platform. Through ongoing collaboration with Microsoft, our ecosystem is broadening to meet the market’s broad-based demand for Falcon.”
The CrowdStrike Falcon platform is available immediately via Microsoft Marketplace with full Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment decrement eligibility.
