SAP, however, is still working on how the new consumption model pricing will be applied to channel partners, according to Lahl. "It's our intent to enable this for the [partner] ecosystem," he said.

Google Cloud partners can leverage new Google consumption packs to help accelerate migration from VMware, SAP, MS SQL Server, Hadoop and data centers to cloud offerings like Anthos, GKE and Cloud SQL.

SAP has released a new consumption-based model of software delivery for its SAP Cloud Platform designed to simplify the cost and management of enterprise apps.