Microsoft Dedicated Host DCSV2 T1 USWES2 3 Year Subscription
Secure your critical workloads with a 3-year Microsoft Dedicated Host DCSV2 subscription, ensuring dedicated infrastructure and compliance for your business operations.
- Dedicated Infrastructure: Gain exclusive access to physical servers, enhancing security and performance for your sensitive applications.
- Compliance Assurance: Meet stringent regulatory requirements by maintaining full control over your hardware environment.
- Predictable Costs: Lock in pricing for three years with a predictable monthly subscription, simplifying IT budget management.
- Optimized Performance: Ensure consistent and high performance for your core business applications without noisy neighbor issues.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This offering provides a 3-year subscription for Microsoft Azure Dedicated Host DCSV2, specifically for the T1 instance type in the US West 2 region. It grants you dedicated physical servers within Azure's data centers, ensuring your workloads run on hardware exclusively used by your organization. This model is ideal for meeting strict compliance mandates and achieving predictable performance for your most critical applications.
Businesses seeking to maintain direct control over their physical server environment while benefiting from cloud scalability and management will find this subscription valuable. It is designed for IT Managers and IT Professionals within SMB and mid-market companies who need to ensure regulatory compliance, optimize application performance, and manage licensing effectively within their Azure footprint.
- Exclusive Hardware Access: Your organization has sole use of the physical server, eliminating resource contention and enhancing security.
- Regulatory Compliance: Facilitates adherence to industry-specific regulations and data residency requirements.
- Performance Predictability: Guarantees consistent performance levels by isolating your workloads from other tenants.
- Azure Hybrid Benefit: Potentially allows for the reuse of existing on-premises Windows Server and SQL Server licenses.
- Simplified Licensing: A 3-year subscription model provides cost predictability and simplifies license management.
Secure dedicated Azure infrastructure with a predictable 3-year subscription, offering enhanced control and compliance for your business-critical applications.
What This Enables
Meeting Strict Regulatory Compliance
Organizations deploying sensitive data or operating under strict industry regulations can ensure compliance by having dedicated physical servers. This provides the necessary isolation and control to meet audit requirements and data residency mandates.
regulated environments, data sovereignty needs, compliance-driven deployments, secure cloud strategy
Optimizing Performance for Critical Workloads
Businesses running performance-sensitive applications, such as databases or high-transaction systems, can guarantee consistent performance. Dedicated hosts eliminate the 'noisy neighbor' effect, ensuring your applications receive the full resources of the underlying hardware.
performance-sensitive applications, critical business systems, predictable resource allocation, high-availability architecture
Managing Licensing for Existing Software
Teams managing existing on-premises licenses for Windows Server or SQL Server can leverage Azure Hybrid Benefit on dedicated hosts. This allows for cost savings by reusing eligible licenses in the cloud.
existing license optimization, cost reduction strategies, hybrid cloud deployments, software asset management
Key Features
Dedicated Physical Servers
Provides exclusive use of physical hardware, enhancing security, performance predictability, and compliance capabilities.
3-Year Subscription Term
Locks in pricing for three years, offering budget predictability and simplifying long-term IT planning.
Azure Hybrid Benefit
Enables cost savings by allowing the reuse of existing on-premises Windows Server and SQL Server licenses.
Instance Type Flexibility (T1)
Offers a specific hardware configuration suitable for a range of general-purpose workloads.
US West 2 Region Availability
Provides dedicated hosting capacity in a specific geographic location for latency or data residency needs.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require stringent security, data isolation, and compliance with regulations like PCI DSS and SOX, making dedicated hardware a necessity for sensitive data and transactions.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must adhere to HIPAA and other privacy regulations, demanding secure, isolated environments to protect patient health information (PHI) and ensure data integrity.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies often have strict data sovereignty, security, and compliance mandates (e.g., FedRAMP) that necessitate dedicated infrastructure for sensitive citizen data and critical operations.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services handle highly confidential client data and are subject to strict professional ethics and data protection laws, requiring a secure and isolated computing environment.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Microsoft Azure Dedicated Host?
Azure Dedicated Host provides dedicated physical servers in Azure datacenters for your exclusive use. This allows you to host your Azure virtual machines on hardware that is not shared with other customers, offering enhanced control, security, and compliance.
Who is Azure Dedicated Host for?
It is ideal for organizations with strict regulatory compliance requirements, those needing to meet data residency mandates, or businesses that require predictable performance for their critical workloads and want to avoid the 'noisy neighbor' effect.
Can I use my existing licenses with Azure Dedicated Host?
Yes, Azure Dedicated Host supports the Azure Hybrid Benefit, allowing you to use your existing on-premises licenses for Windows Server and SQL Server to reduce costs when running compatible workloads on dedicated hardware.
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.