CrowdStrike Falcon now available via Microsoft Marketplace

CrowdStrike has made its Falcon security platform available through Microsoft Marketplace, allowing customers to buy it using their existing Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment.

The move extends the companies' strategic alliance and adds a procurement route that links security spending to pre-committed cloud budgets. It also places Falcon alongside other software sold through Microsoft's commercial marketplace, which many organisations use for centralised purchasing and billing.

Microsoft Marketplace is a storefront for third-party applications and services that run on, or integrate with, Microsoft cloud products. Many enterprises use it for vendor management and financial controls, since purchases can flow through the same billing and invoicing systems as Azure and other Microsoft services.

Under the expanded arrangement, organisations can apply their Azure Consumption Commitment to Falcon purchases. Azure Consumption Commitment is a spending commitment that customers make with Microsoft for cloud consumption, often tied to negotiated discounts and purchasing terms.

Procurement shift

The companies framed the change as a way to reduce friction in acquiring security tools and to avoid delays caused by budget planning cycles.

Judson Althoff, CEO of Microsoft's commercial business, positioned security as a prerequisite for AI adoption across organisations.

"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 optimise cloud spend while adopting a rigorous security posture."

George Kurtz, CEO and founder of CrowdStrike, said the marketplace route and the ability to use committed Azure funds could speed up purchasing decisions for security teams.

"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 maximise 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."

What is included

CrowdStrike said Falcon covers several security areas, including endpoints, cloud workloads, identity, AI and data. It is marketed as a unified platform delivered from the cloud and deployed using an agent-based model.

The companies said buying through Marketplace can simplify procurement and billing and reduce operational overhead by consolidating processes through Microsoft.

Security procurement has increasingly shifted to cloud marketplaces in recent years, as vendors and customers seek faster contracting and a single route for licensing across product categories. Large cloud providers have also promoted marketplaces as a way for customers to use existing spend commitments across a wider range of software.

Jay McBain, Chief Analyst at Canalys, said cloud marketplaces have become a significant route to market for enterprise software.

"Cloud marketplaces are becoming a primary route to market for enterprise software, streamlining procurement while activating partner co-sell at scale," said Jay McBain, Chief Analyst at Canalys. "By allowing Falcon to transact against Azure Consumption Commitments, Microsoft and CrowdStrike are aligning security purchases with cloud spend - accelerating deal velocity and simplifying the path from agreement to deployment."

Customer view

Gap said the change will help it manage fast-moving technology adoption and security requirements across its operations.

"In today's agentic world, security must move at the speed of innovation," said Tom Le, Chief Information Security Officer at Gap Inc. "CrowdStrike and Microsoft are strategic pillars of our technology ecosystem. Azure drives our dynamic, digital-first retail ecosystem, and the Falcon platform delivers the protection we rely on to stay secure. Making Falcon available through Microsoft Marketplace gives us the agility to adapt to rapid shifts in technological change, supporting how we accelerate secure cloud and AI innovation worldwide."

The announcement reflects a broader trend of security vendors seeking tighter commercial and technical ties with hyperscale cloud providers. For Microsoft, marketplace sales can deepen customer commitment to Azure and encourage consolidation within its billing systems. For CrowdStrike, marketplace availability expands access to customers that prefer to buy software through existing cloud procurement frameworks.

CrowdStrike said Falcon is available through Microsoft Marketplace and is eligible for Azure Consumption Commitment decrement.