Microsoft Reserved VM Instance Standard_D2s_v3, US South Central, 1 Year Subscription
Secure a Microsoft Reserved VM Instance for Standard_D2s_v3 in US South Central for a 1-year term, ensuring predictable costs and consistent performance for your critical workloads.
- Cost Savings: Lock in lower prices compared to pay-as-you-go rates for consistent Azure VM usage.
- Performance Assurance: Guarantee capacity availability in the specified Azure region for your deployed virtual machines.
- Simplified Management: Benefit from a predictable subscription model that streamlines budgeting and financial planning.
- Compliance Ready: Maintain adherence to regulatory requirements by ensuring consistent and available infrastructure.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Microsoft Reserved VM Instance provides a commitment to use a specific VM type, Standard_D2s_v3, in the US South Central Azure region for a 1-year term. By reserving capacity, you gain significant cost savings compared to on-demand pricing while ensuring your virtual machines are available when needed.
This offering is ideal for businesses with stable and predictable Azure virtual machine workloads. It supports organizations running essential applications, development/test environments, or backend services that require consistent performance and availability within a defined Azure footprint.
- Predictable Pricing: Commit to a 1-year term for the Standard_D2s_v3 VM in US South Central to receive discounted rates.
- Capacity Reservation: Ensures that the specified VM capacity is available for your use in the chosen Azure region.
- Subscription Billing: A straightforward subscription model simplifies financial management and forecasting.
- Azure Platform: Applies to Microsoft Azure virtual machines, specifically the Standard_D2s_v3 series.
- Operational Continuity: Guarantees the availability of resources for uninterrupted business operations.
Optimize your Azure spend and ensure resource availability with this 1-year Reserved VM Instance commitment.
What This Enables
Ensure Consistent Application Uptime
Enable teams to maintain uninterrupted service delivery for critical business applications. This reservation guarantees the availability of compute resources, preventing downtime due to capacity constraints.
production workloads, business-critical applications, stable compute needs, cloud infrastructure
Optimize Cloud Spend Predictably
Streamline financial planning by locking in discounted rates for your Azure virtual machines. This predictable cost structure helps avoid unexpected spikes in cloud expenditure.
budget-conscious operations, long-term cloud strategy, predictable resource utilization, financial forecasting
Support Development and Testing Environments
Automate the provisioning of reliable compute resources for development and testing teams. This ensures consistent performance and availability for iterative development cycles.
dev test environments, CI/CD pipelines, software development lifecycle, staging environments
Key Features
1-Year Commitment
Commit to a 1-year term to achieve significant cost savings compared to pay-as-you-go Azure pricing.
Standard_D2s_v3 VM Type
Utilize a versatile VM series suitable for a wide range of general-purpose workloads requiring a balance of compute, memory, and storage.
US South Central Region
Ensure your resources are deployed in a specific geographic location for latency, compliance, or data residency requirements.
Capacity Reservation
Guarantee that the compute capacity you need is available in the specified Azure region when you need it.
Subscription Billing
Benefit from a clear and predictable subscription model that simplifies financial management and forecasting.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require stable, high-performance computing for trading platforms, risk analysis, and customer-facing applications, benefiting from predictable costs and guaranteed capacity.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers use cloud resources for operational technology, supply chain management, and analytics, needing reliable infrastructure for critical business processes.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations rely on consistent access to patient data systems, research applications, and administrative tools, where uptime and predictable performance are paramount.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies utilize cloud for document management, case management, and client communication, requiring dependable and cost-effective IT resources.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Reserved VM Instance?
A Reserved VM Instance is a commitment to use specific Azure virtual machine types in a particular region for a set term (1 or 3 years). In return, you receive a significant discount compared to pay-as-you-go pricing.
How does this save money?
By committing to a 1-year term, you are essentially pre-purchasing compute capacity at a lower rate. This provides cost certainty and reduces your overall Azure expenditure for predictable workloads.
Can I change the VM size or region later?
Azure Reserved Instances offer flexibility. You can exchange or cancel reservations under certain conditions, or modify them to different VM types or regions, subject to Azure's terms and conditions.
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.