Microsoft Reserved VM Instance STANDARD_D2AS_V5
Commit to a 3-year Microsoft Azure Reserved VM Instance for the STANDARD_D2AS_V5 in US West 3 to lock in significant savings and guarantee capacity for your critical workloads.
- Cost Savings: Achieve up to 72% savings compared to pay-as-you-go pricing by committing to a 3-year term.
- Capacity Assurance: Guarantee the availability of your specified VM instance type in the chosen region, preventing resource contention.
- Predictable Budgeting: Stabilize your cloud expenditure with fixed pricing for the duration of the reservation term.
- Simplified Management: Reduce the complexity of managing VM costs and ensure compliance with your Azure spending.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Microsoft Azure Reserved VM Instance provides a commitment to use a specific VM type, STANDARD_D2AS_V5, in the US West 3 region for a 3-year term. By making this reservation, you secure significant discounts compared to pay-as-you-go pricing and guarantee the availability of compute capacity for your essential applications.
This offering is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies who run consistent, predictable workloads on Azure. It fits into environments where specific VM configurations are required for ongoing operations, development, or production applications, ensuring both cost efficiency and reliable performance.
- Discounted Pricing: Benefit from substantial savings over the 3-year commitment period.
- Guaranteed Capacity: Reserve compute resources to ensure your applications are always available.
- Flexible Deployment: Apply the reservation to matching VMs in the specified region.
- Cost Predictability: Lock in your pricing to simplify cloud budget management.
- Azure Integration: Seamlessly integrates with your existing Azure environment.
Secure your Azure compute resources and optimize your cloud spend with this 3-year Reserved VM Instance, offering enterprise-grade predictability without the enterprise overhead.
What This Enables
Enable predictable application performance
Enable teams to ensure critical business applications have dedicated and consistently available compute resources. Streamline operations by eliminating the variability of pay-as-you-go pricing for steady-state workloads.
production workloads, business-critical applications, consistent resource demand, long-term deployments
Streamline cloud cost management
Streamline cloud financial operations by locking in a fixed price for compute resources over a 3-year term. Automate cost savings by committing to capacity that aligns with your predictable usage patterns.
budget-constrained environments, financial planning, predictable IT spend, resource optimization
Guarantee compute capacity availability
Enable teams to guarantee the availability of specific VM instance types, preventing resource contention during peak demand. Automate capacity planning by reserving the necessary hardware for your core services.
high-availability requirements, resource-intensive tasks, development environments, testing infrastructure
Key Features
3-Year Commitment Term
Achieve the maximum discount rate available for Azure Reserved VM Instances, significantly reducing your overall compute costs over the long term.
STANDARD_D2AS_V5 Instance Type
Utilize a cost-effective and versatile VM size suitable for a wide range of business applications, balancing performance and price.
US West 3 Region
Deploy your reserved instances in a specific geographic location to meet latency requirements and data residency needs for your users.
Capacity Reservation
Ensure that the compute capacity you need is always available, preventing performance degradation or service interruptions due to resource scarcity.
Subscription Billing
Manage your cloud expenses with predictable, recurring subscription payments that align with your operational budget cycles.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require highly available and predictable compute resources for trading platforms, risk analysis, and customer-facing applications, making reserved instances ideal for cost control and guaranteed performance.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers often run mission-critical operational technology (OT) applications and data processing workloads that demand consistent uptime and predictable costs, aligning well with the benefits of reserved instances.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations need reliable infrastructure for patient record systems, diagnostic tools, and research, where consistent performance and cost predictability are essential for regulatory compliance and operational efficiency.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies rely on secure and consistently available platforms for case management, document processing, and client communication, benefiting from the cost savings and guaranteed capacity of reserved instances.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Reserved VM Instance?
A Reserved VM Instance (RI) is a pricing model that allows you to commit to using a specific virtual machine type in a particular region for a 1 or 3-year term. In exchange for this commitment, you receive a significant discount compared to pay-as-you-go pricing.
How does this reservation save money?
By committing to a 3-year term, you secure a substantially lower hourly rate for the specified VM instance type. This provides predictable cost savings over the duration of the reservation, especially for workloads that run continuously.
Can I change the VM size or region after purchasing?
Azure Reserved Instances offer flexibility. You can exchange your RI for another RI with different attributes, or cancel it, subject to certain terms and conditions. However, the primary benefit is achieved by matching the reservation to your actual usage.
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.