Microsoft Dedicated Host EDSv4 Series T1
This Microsoft Dedicated Host EDSv4 Series T1 license provides dedicated physical servers for your exclusive use, ensuring enhanced security and performance for your critical workloads over a one-year term.
- Dedicated Infrastructure: Gain exclusive access to physical servers, isolating your workloads from other tenants for maximum security and predictable performance.
- Enhanced Security: Meet stringent compliance requirements and protect sensitive data with a dedicated environment free from the noisy neighbor effect.
- Performance Predictability: Ensure consistent application performance and avoid resource contention, crucial for business-critical applications.
- Compliance Assurance: Maintain regulatory compliance by having full control over your hardware environment and data residency.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Microsoft Dedicated Host EDSv4 Series T1 license provides a dedicated physical server instance within Microsoft Azure, designed for organizations requiring complete isolation and control over their cloud infrastructure. This subscription grants you exclusive use of the underlying hardware, enabling you to run your workloads with enhanced security, predictable performance, and the ability to meet specific compliance mandates.
This offering is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies who need to deploy applications with specific security, compliance, or licensing requirements that cannot be met in a shared multi-tenant environment. It integrates directly into your Azure environment, allowing you to manage your dedicated hosts and virtual machines through familiar Azure tools and APIs.
- Exclusive Hardware Access: Your own physical server in Azure, ensuring no noisy neighbors or shared resource contention.
- Compliance and Security: Meet strict regulatory requirements and data sovereignty needs with a dedicated, isolated environment.
- Licensing Flexibility: Continue using your existing eligible Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with Software Assurance for added value.
- Performance Guarantees: Benefit from consistent, predictable performance for your most demanding applications.
- Azure Integration: Manage your dedicated hosts and VMs seamlessly within the Azure portal and ecosystem.
This dedicated host solution empowers SMB and mid-market teams to achieve enterprise-grade isolation and control within Azure, simplifying compliance and performance management.
What This Enables
Isolate Sensitive Workloads
Enable teams to run highly sensitive applications or data on physically isolated hardware, ensuring maximum security and privacy. This prevents potential data leakage and unauthorized access inherent in shared environments.
private cloud deployments, hybrid cloud strategies, regulatory compliance needs, data sovereignty requirements
Meet Strict Compliance Mandates
Organizations deploying applications subject to stringent industry regulations can leverage this dedicated environment to meet specific compliance standards. This provides the necessary control and auditability for regulatory adherence.
financial services, healthcare data processing, government workloads, PCI DSS environments
Optimize Licensing for Existing Software
Businesses migrating existing on-premises licenses for Windows Server or SQL Server with Software Assurance can benefit from bringing their licenses to Azure on dedicated hardware. This can lead to cost efficiencies and continued investment protection.
on-premises license migration, hybrid licensing strategies, existing enterprise agreements, SQL Server deployments
Key Features
Dedicated Physical Server
Provides exclusive access to hardware, eliminating noisy neighbor issues and ensuring consistent performance for your workloads.
Azure Integration
Seamlessly manage your dedicated hosts and virtual machines through the familiar Azure portal and APIs.
Compliance Control
Offers a controlled environment to meet strict regulatory and data sovereignty requirements.
Software Assurance Benefits
Allows you to bring eligible Windows Server and SQL Server licenses to Azure, potentially reducing costs.
One-Year Subscription Term
Provides a defined period of dedicated resource access, simplifying budgeting and planning for critical deployments.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
This vertical requires strict data isolation and adherence to regulations like PCI DSS and GDPR, making dedicated hardware essential for sensitive financial data and transactions.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Organizations in this sector must comply with HIPAA and other stringent data privacy laws, necessitating dedicated infrastructure to protect patient health information (PHI).
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies often have specific security mandates and data residency requirements that are best met through dedicated, controlled cloud environments.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services handle highly confidential client data, requiring dedicated infrastructure to maintain attorney-client privilege and meet data security standards.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a dedicated host in Azure?
A dedicated host in Azure is a physical server that is dedicated to a single customer's use. This provides isolation from other tenants, offering enhanced security and compliance benefits.
What hardware series does this license apply to?
This license specifically applies to the EDSv4 Series T1 hardware within Microsoft Azure's dedicated host offerings.
Can I use my existing Windows Server licenses with this dedicated host?
Yes, if you have eligible Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with active Software Assurance, you can bring them to Azure Dedicated Hosts to potentially reduce your overall costs.
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.