Microsoft Azure RI VM STANDARD_DS13-2_V2-USNORTHCENT-3Y
This 3-year Microsoft Azure RI VM license provides dedicated virtual machine capacity, ensuring consistent performance and cost predictability for your core business applications.
- License Term: Covers 3 years of dedicated Azure VM usage, offering long-term planning and cost stability.
- Platform Access: Unlocks the STANDARD_DS13_V2 VM series, providing significant compute and memory resources.
- Compliance Assurance: Ensures proper licensing for your Azure virtual machine deployments, avoiding compliance risks.
- Operational Continuity: Guarantees access to essential cloud infrastructure for uninterrupted business operations.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is a 3-year Reserved Instance (RI) license for a Microsoft Azure virtual machine, specifically the STANDARD_DS13_V2 series in the US North Central region. It provides a commitment to Azure infrastructure, enabling predictable costs and dedicated resources for your business-critical workloads.
This license is ideal for SMB and mid-market companies that utilize Azure for their own IT operations, such as hosting internal applications, managing databases, or running development and testing environments. It ensures that your IT infrastructure remains compliant and accessible without the need for significant upfront capital expenditure on hardware.
- Cost Savings: Reserved Instances offer significant discounts compared to pay-as-you-go pricing for long-term commitments.
- Performance Guarantee: Provides dedicated VM capacity, ensuring consistent performance for your applications.
- Predictable Budgeting: Locks in pricing for 3 years, simplifying financial planning and IT budget management.
- Azure Ecosystem Access: Enables utilization of the STANDARD_DS13_V2 VM series with its specific compute and memory configurations.
- Licensing Compliance: Ensures your use of Azure VMs is properly licensed, mitigating audit risks.
Secure your Azure VM capacity with this 3-year Reserved Instance license, offering cost savings and operational stability for your business.
What This Enables
Enable consistent performance for critical business applications
Enable teams to run essential business applications, such as CRM, ERP, or custom-built software, with guaranteed performance. This ensures uninterrupted service delivery to your internal users and customers.
dedicated servers, internal applications, business continuity, predictable performance
Streamline development and testing environments
Streamline the provisioning and management of development and testing environments with dedicated VM resources. This allows developers to work efficiently without resource contention, accelerating project timelines.
development workloads, testing environments, CI/CD pipelines, agile development
Automate database hosting and management
Automate the hosting and management of your business databases on a stable and reliable Azure platform. This license ensures the necessary compute power is available for optimal database performance and data integrity.
database hosting, data warehousing, business intelligence, data analytics
Key Features
3-Year Commitment
Locks in pricing for three years, providing significant cost savings over pay-as-you-go and enabling predictable budgeting.
STANDARD_DS13_V2 VM Series
Provides access to a specific Azure VM size with substantial compute and memory, suitable for demanding workloads.
US North Central Region
Ensures your VM is deployed in a specific geographic location, meeting data residency or latency requirements.
Reserved Instance Model
Guarantees capacity availability and offers a discount for committing to usage, enhancing resource predictability.
Microsoft Azure Platform
Leverages Microsoft's global cloud infrastructure for reliability, security, and scalability.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require highly available and performant systems for trading, risk management, and customer service, making dedicated VM capacity with predictable costs essential for compliance and operations.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations handle sensitive patient data and require robust, compliant infrastructure for electronic health records (EHR) and medical imaging, benefiting from the reliability and licensing certainty of RIs.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers use cloud resources for operational technology (OT) integration, supply chain management, and analytics, needing consistent performance and cost control for their critical production systems.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies manage confidential client data and require secure, reliable platforms for case management and document processing, where licensing compliance and uptime are paramount.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Microsoft Azure Reserved Instance (RI)?
A Reserved Instance is a commitment to use specific Azure compute resources for a 1- or 3-year term in exchange for a significant discount compared to pay-as-you-go pricing. It helps in cost optimization and capacity reservation.
What does STANDARD_DS13_V2 mean?
This refers to a specific Azure virtual machine size within the Dsv3 series, known for its balance of compute and memory. The DS13_V2 offers 8 vCPUs and 64 GiB of RAM, suitable for many enterprise-grade applications.
Can I change the VM size or region after purchasing this RI?
Azure Reserved Instances can be exchanged or cancelled with limitations. Modifications to the VM size or region may be possible through Azure's RI modification options, subject to terms and conditions.
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.