Microsoft EDSv4 Series Dedicated Host - Type 1
Access dedicated Microsoft Azure infrastructure with EDSv4 Series Type 1 licenses, ensuring predictable performance and enhanced security for your critical business applications.
- Dedicated Infrastructure: Gain exclusive access to physical servers in Azure, providing isolation and consistent performance for your workloads.
- Enhanced Security: Benefit from a secure, isolated environment that helps meet stringent compliance and data residency requirements.
- Predictable Performance: Ensure your applications run without interference from other tenants, guaranteeing stable and reliable operations.
- Cost Efficiency: Optimize your IT spend by dedicating hardware resources, avoiding the overhead of managing physical infrastructure.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Microsoft EDSv4 Series Dedicated Host license provides exclusive access to dedicated physical servers within the Azure cloud. This offering ensures that your workloads run on hardware solely dedicated to your organization, offering a higher level of isolation, security, and predictable performance compared to shared environments. It is designed for businesses that require greater control over their infrastructure and need to meet specific compliance or performance benchmarks.
This license is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies who are responsible for deploying and managing critical business applications, sensitive data, or workloads with strict performance requirements. It fits within an organization's cloud strategy by providing a dedicated foundation within Azure, allowing for tailored configurations and enhanced security postures without the complexity of on-premises hardware management.
- Exclusive Hardware Access: Your organization has sole use of the physical server, eliminating noisy neighbor issues and ensuring consistent resource availability.
- Compliance and Governance: Facilitates adherence to regulatory requirements and internal policies by providing a controlled and isolated computing environment.
- Performance Predictability: Guarantees that your applications receive dedicated CPU, memory, and storage resources, leading to stable and reliable performance.
- Cost Optimization: Offers a cost-effective way to achieve dedicated infrastructure benefits within the Azure cloud, reducing capital expenditure on physical hardware.
- Simplified Management: Integrates with Azure management tools, simplifying the deployment and oversight of your dedicated hosting environment.
Secure dedicated Azure infrastructure for your business needs, offering performance, security, and cost advantages without enterprise-level complexity.
What This Enables
Deploying Sensitive Workloads
Enable teams to run applications handling sensitive customer data or proprietary information in an isolated environment. This ensures enhanced security and helps meet strict data privacy regulations.
cloud hosting, virtual machine deployment, data security, regulatory compliance
Ensuring Application Performance Consistency
Streamline operations by guaranteeing that critical business applications receive dedicated compute and memory resources. This prevents performance degradation caused by other tenants and ensures reliable user experiences.
performance-sensitive applications, business continuity, IT resource management, cloud infrastructure
Meeting Regulatory Compliance Requirements
Automate adherence to industry-specific regulations and internal governance policies by utilizing dedicated hardware. This provides a verifiable control plane for sensitive data processing and storage.
compliance-driven deployments, data residency, audit trails, secure hosting
Key Features
Exclusive Physical Server Access
Eliminates resource contention and ensures consistent, predictable performance for your most critical applications.
Azure Integration
Seamlessly manage your dedicated host and virtual machines using familiar Azure tools and services.
Security Isolation
Provides a dedicated environment that enhances data security and helps meet stringent compliance mandates.
Flexible VM Deployment
Deploy a variety of Azure VM sizes on your dedicated host to match your specific workload requirements.
Cost Predictability
Offers a more predictable cost structure for dedicated infrastructure compared to on-premises solutions.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust security, predictable performance for trading platforms, and strict adherence to regulations like PCI DSS and SOX, all of which are supported by dedicated hosting.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must comply with HIPAA and other data privacy regulations, necessitating secure, isolated environments for patient data and critical medical applications.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services handle highly sensitive client data and often have specific compliance requirements or need to ensure consistent performance for critical case management systems.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial operations may require dedicated infrastructure for control systems, IoT data processing, or ERP systems where performance consistency and security are paramount for operational continuity.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a dedicated host in Azure?
A dedicated host in Azure is a physical server that is entirely dedicated to a single customer. This means you have exclusive use of the host's compute, memory, and storage resources, providing enhanced isolation and security.
What is the difference between EDSv4 and other Azure VM series?
The EDSv4 series offers dedicated hosts, meaning you are renting the physical server itself. Other Azure VM series typically run on shared hardware, though they offer various performance and cost optimizations.
Can I move my existing on-premises servers to an EDSv4 dedicated host?
Yes, dedicated hosts are an excellent option for migrating on-premises servers that require dedicated hardware for performance, licensing, or compliance reasons. You can deploy compatible virtual machines onto the dedicated host.
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.