Microsoft MDSv2 Series Dedicated Host Subscription
Gain dedicated access to Microsoft's Azure infrastructure with the MDSv2 Series Dedicated Host subscription, ensuring consistent performance and compliance for your critical business workloads.
- Dedicated Infrastructure: Access to physical servers exclusively for your workloads, enhancing security and performance predictability.
- Compliance Assurance: Meet regulatory and internal compliance requirements by maintaining control over your dedicated hardware environment.
- Optimized Performance: Benefit from consistent, high-performance computing resources tailored to your specific application needs.
- Cost Predictability: Subscription-based licensing offers predictable monthly costs for your dedicated hosting solution.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This subscription provides access to Microsoft's Azure Dedicated Host infrastructure, specifically the MDSv2 Series with enhanced memory configurations. It allows businesses to deploy their own virtual machines on dedicated physical servers, offering a higher level of control, security, and compliance compared to shared environments.
Ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies, this solution is designed for organizations running critical business applications, sensitive data workloads, or those with strict regulatory compliance needs. It integrates directly into the Azure ecosystem, allowing for familiar management tools and services.
- Exclusive Hardware Access: Utilize physical servers dedicated solely to your organization's virtual machines.
- Enhanced Security Posture: Isolate your workloads from other tenants for improved security and data protection.
- Performance Consistency: Avoid the 'noisy neighbor' effect and ensure predictable application performance.
- Licensing Flexibility: Bring your existing eligible Windows Server and SQL Server licenses to Azure Dedicated Hosts to save costs.
- Compliance Adherence: Facilitate adherence to industry-specific regulations and internal governance policies.
This dedicated host subscription is the ideal choice for SMB and mid-market teams seeking enterprise-grade infrastructure control and predictable performance within the Azure cloud.
What This Enables
Enable Secure Workload Isolation
Enable teams to deploy sensitive applications and data on physical servers dedicated solely to their organization. This ensures a higher level of security isolation and control over the underlying infrastructure.
private cloud deployments, hybrid cloud strategies, regulatory compliance needs, sensitive data hosting
Streamline Compliance Adherence
Streamline meeting stringent regulatory requirements by maintaining dedicated hardware for your workloads. This provides auditable control and helps satisfy compliance mandates for data residency and isolation.
regulated industries, data sovereignty requirements, internal governance policies, audit trail generation
Automate Performance Optimization
Automate the process of ensuring consistent application performance by dedicating physical server resources. This eliminates the 'noisy neighbor' effect and guarantees predictable compute power for critical business functions.
performance-sensitive applications, business-critical systems, predictable resource allocation, high-availability deployments
Key Features
Dedicated Physical Servers
Provides exclusive use of hardware, enhancing security and performance predictability for your workloads.
Azure Integration
Seamlessly integrates with the Azure ecosystem, allowing for familiar management tools and services.
Memory Optimized Configuration
Offers enhanced memory capacity suitable for memory-intensive applications and workloads.
Subscription Billing
Provides predictable monthly costs for your dedicated hosting solution, aiding in budget management.
Compliance Controls
Facilitates adherence to industry regulations and internal governance by providing dedicated and controlled environments.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require stringent data security, isolation, and compliance with regulations like PCI DSS and SOX, which dedicated hosts help address through dedicated infrastructure.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must comply with HIPAA and other privacy regulations, necessitating secure, isolated environments for patient data and critical healthcare applications.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services handle highly confidential client data, requiring robust security, data isolation, and compliance with data privacy laws.
Manufacturing & Industrial
These organizations often run specialized operational technology (OT) or critical business systems that demand predictable performance and high availability, benefiting from dedicated resources.
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. This means you have exclusive use of the physical server, providing greater control, security, and compliance capabilities for your virtual machines.
Who is this subscription for?
This subscription is designed for SMB and mid-market organizations that require dedicated infrastructure for their business-critical applications, sensitive data, or specific compliance needs within the Azure cloud.
Can I bring my own licenses?
Yes, you can bring eligible existing Windows Server and SQL Server licenses to Azure Dedicated Hosts through the Azure Hybrid Benefit, potentially reducing your 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.