Microsoft Azure Dedicated Hosts Standard Subscription - 3 Year
This 3-year Microsoft Azure Dedicated Hosts Standard subscription provides dedicated physical servers for your Azure virtual machines, ensuring enhanced security and compliance for your business operations.
- Dedicated Infrastructure: Access to physical servers exclusively for your Azure virtual machines, isolating your workloads from other tenants.
- Enhanced Security: Meet stringent compliance requirements by maintaining control over the physical hardware your sensitive data resides on.
- Predictable Performance: Ensure consistent and predictable performance for your critical applications by eliminating the 'noisy neighbor' effect.
- Cost Management: Benefit from a 3-year subscription term for predictable budgeting and potential cost savings compared to pay-as-you-go options.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is a 3-year subscription for Microsoft Azure Dedicated Hosts Standard, providing you with dedicated physical servers within Azure data centers. This license enables you to run your Azure virtual machines on hardware that is solely dedicated to your organization, offering a higher level of isolation and control.
Ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies, this subscription is designed for businesses with specific security, compliance, or performance needs. It fits into your Azure environment by allowing you to provision VMs directly onto your dedicated host infrastructure, ensuring your critical applications and sensitive data are housed on hardware you control.
- Dedicated Physical Servers: Provision Azure VMs on physical servers that are exclusively yours.
- Compliance Assurance: Meet regulatory and internal compliance mandates by controlling the underlying hardware.
- Performance Isolation: Guarantee consistent performance for your most demanding workloads.
- Licensing Flexibility: Bring your own Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with Software Assurance for potential cost savings.
- Simplified Management: Manage your dedicated hosts and the VMs running on them through the Azure portal.
Secure your critical workloads with dedicated Azure infrastructure, offering enhanced control and compliance for your business needs.
What This Enables
Meeting Strict Compliance Standards
Enable teams to meet stringent regulatory requirements, such as HIPAA or PCI DSS, by ensuring sensitive data resides on physically isolated hardware. Streamline audits and maintain compliance with dedicated server resources.
cloud deployments, regulated industries, sensitive data handling, hybrid cloud environments
Isolating Critical Workloads
Organizations deploying mission-critical applications that demand consistent performance and isolation from other tenants. Protect against the 'noisy neighbor' effect to guarantee application responsiveness.
high-performance computing, core business applications, production environments, virtual desktop infrastructure
Optimizing Licensing Costs
Businesses migrating workloads to Azure can bring existing Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with Software Assurance, potentially reducing overall cloud spend. Automate the deployment of licensed software onto dedicated infrastructure.
on-premises to cloud migration, existing Microsoft licensing, cost optimization strategies, hybrid cloud deployments
Key Features
Dedicated Physical Servers
Provides exclusive use of physical servers in Azure, ensuring isolation and control for your virtual machines.
License Mobility
Allows you to bring eligible on-premises licenses, like Windows Server and SQL Server with Software Assurance, to your dedicated hosts for potential cost savings.
Azure Hybrid Benefit
Enables you to use your existing on-premises Windows Server licenses with Software Assurance to pay a reduced rate on Azure Dedicated Hosts.
Compliance and Security
Helps meet regulatory and internal compliance requirements by providing dedicated hardware for your workloads.
Predictable Performance
Eliminates the 'noisy neighbor' effect, ensuring consistent and reliable performance for your critical applications.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require stringent security and compliance measures, making dedicated infrastructure essential for protecting sensitive customer data and meeting regulatory mandates like PCI DSS.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must adhere to strict data privacy regulations such as HIPAA, necessitating dedicated hardware to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of patient health information.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies often have specific security and data residency requirements, benefiting from the isolation and control offered by dedicated Azure hosts to protect sensitive citizen data.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies handle highly confidential client information and must maintain strict data privacy, making dedicated infrastructure a key component for compliance and security.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between Azure Dedicated Hosts and regular Azure VMs?
Azure Dedicated Hosts provide you with exclusive access to physical servers in Azure data centers. Regular Azure VMs run on shared physical hardware. Dedicated Hosts offer greater control, isolation, and compliance capabilities.
Can I use my existing Windows Server and SQL Server licenses?
Yes, you can often bring eligible licenses with Software Assurance to Azure Dedicated Hosts through the Azure Hybrid Benefit, potentially reducing your costs. Specific eligibility applies.
What is the term of this subscription?
This is a 3-year subscription for Microsoft Azure Dedicated Hosts Standard, providing a fixed term for budgeting and planning.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.