Microsoft Reserved VM Instance Standard_B2s AP East 3 Year Subscription
Secure a Microsoft Reserved VM Instance, Standard_B2s, in AP East for a 3-year term, ensuring predictable costs for your essential cloud workloads.
- Predictable Pricing: Lock in a fixed rate for your Standard_B2s VM in AP East for three years, avoiding potential price fluctuations.
- Cost Optimization: Significantly reduce your overall cloud spend compared to pay-as-you-go pricing for consistent workloads.
- Resource Commitment: Guarantee the availability of your Standard_B2s compute resources in the AP East region for your critical applications.
- Simplified Management: A single subscription covers your VM instance for the entire three-year term, streamlining IT administration.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Microsoft Reserved VM Instance provides a Standard_B2s compute capacity in the AP East region for a committed term of three years. It offers a cost-effective solution for businesses with stable and predictable virtual machine usage patterns, ensuring resource availability and financial predictability.
Designed for businesses that require consistent compute power, this reservation is ideal for running essential applications, development/test environments, or backend services. It integrates directly into your existing Microsoft Azure environment, allowing your IT teams to manage resources efficiently without needing specialized integration services.
- Cost Savings: Achieve substantial discounts compared to on-demand pricing for consistent workloads.
- Resource Availability: Reserve specific VM sizes and regions to ensure capacity when you need it.
- Financial Predictability: Lock in pricing for three years, simplifying budget forecasting.
- Flexible Deployment: Use with Azure Hybrid Benefit for further savings on Windows Server and SQL Server licenses.
- Simplified Billing: A single subscription covers the reserved instance for the entire term.
Optimize your Azure spend and guarantee resource availability with this 3-year Reserved VM Instance for your business-critical applications.
What This Enables
Cost savings for stable workloads
Enable teams to significantly reduce cloud expenditure by committing to a specific VM size and region for a fixed term. This reservation provides predictable pricing, avoiding the variability of on-demand rates for consistently utilized resources.
production workloads, development/test environments, backend services, long-running applications
Guaranteed resource availability
Ensure that your essential Standard_B2s compute capacity is always available in the AP East region, preventing service disruptions. This commitment is crucial for business-critical applications that cannot tolerate downtime.
mission-critical applications, high-availability setups, essential business services, core operational systems
Budget predictability and forecasting
Streamline financial planning by locking in cloud costs for three years. This predictable expense makes it easier to forecast IT budgets accurately and manage operational expenditures effectively.
financial planning, operational budgeting, cost management, IT resource allocation
Key Features
3-Year Commitment Term
Lock in current pricing for three years, providing significant cost savings over pay-as-you-go rates and ensuring budget predictability.
Standard_B2s VM Size
Access a cost-effective general-purpose VM size suitable for a wide range of workloads, balancing compute, memory, and network resources.
AP East Region
Deploy your reserved instance in the AP East region, optimizing latency and performance for users and applications located in or near that geographic area.
Subscription Billing
Benefit from a simplified billing model where the cost is covered by a single subscription for the entire three-year term, reducing administrative overhead.
Azure Hybrid Benefit Eligibility
Further reduce costs by applying existing on-premises Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with Software Assurance to your Azure VMs.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require stable, predictable costs for their core trading, analytics, and operational systems, making reserved instances ideal for managing IT budgets.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers often run essential production management, IoT data processing, and supply chain applications that demand consistent uptime and predictable operational costs.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers need reliable infrastructure for patient record systems, diagnostic tools, and administrative functions, benefiting from cost-effective and available compute resources.
Retail & Hospitality
Retail and hospitality businesses rely on stable systems for point-of-sale, inventory management, and customer relationship management, where predictable cloud costs are essential.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Reserved VM Instance?
A Reserved VM Instance is a commitment to use a specific type of virtual machine in a particular region for a set term (1 or 3 years) in exchange for a significant discount compared to pay-as-you-go pricing. It guarantees resource availability and provides cost predictability.
How does this reservation save my business money?
By committing to a 3-year term for the Standard_B2s VM in AP East, you secure a lower hourly rate than if you paid for the instance on a month-to-month basis. This is most effective for workloads with consistent usage.
Can I change the VM size or region after purchasing a reservation?
Azure Reserved VM Instances can be exchanged for other reservations if you need to change the VM size or region. Modifications are subject to certain conditions and may involve prorated charges or credits.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Low — self-service
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.