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I think I'm OK with that? If it doesn't increase my costs, and Hashicorp gets paid because I used their tools to deploy my services, and Azure is getting paid more because I probably deploy more services because it's easier thanks to Terraform, doesn't everyone win?

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I'm mostly okay with it, though the deployment plan isn't the proper place for what's essentially a referral code.

Hashicorp is facilitating the purchase of Azure products, and deserves a cut of the revenue. But this should be handled on the account level, either on sign-up or as an account field (a-la Amazon Smile)

I'm less okay with the tracking for analytics purposes, but if Terraform finds some way to make it easy for me to tell cloud providers who sent me, that seems fair.

If it's a referral code at the account level, then you can't easily have multiple providers supplying tools for the client. Whereas, if it's part of the deployment itself, the utilization of one partner tool can be distinguished over another.

Or in other words, the "cut of the revenue" needs to be in proportion to the usage of Azure resources generated by the partner tool. I think that's why its designed this way.

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