Microsoft Reserved VM Instance Standard_D4s_v3 1 Year
Secure predictable cloud costs with a 1-year Microsoft Reserved VM Instance for Standard_D4s_v3 in US West 2, ensuring consistent performance for your critical applications.
- Cost Savings: Lock in discounted pricing for your Standard_D4s_v3 VM instance for a full year, reducing operational expenses.
- Performance Assurance: Guarantee capacity and consistent performance for your essential workloads in the US West 2 region.
- Budget Predictability: Stabilize your cloud spending with fixed monthly or upfront payments for the reserved term.
- Resource Commitment: Ensure availability of specific VM instance types for your business-critical applications.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This offering provides a 1-year reservation for a Microsoft Azure Standard_D4s_v3 Virtual Machine instance located in the US West 2 region. By committing to this reservation, you secure discounted pricing and guaranteed capacity for your compute resources, ensuring consistent performance and predictable costs for your business operations.
This reservation is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies who require stable and cost-effective cloud infrastructure. It fits into environments running persistent workloads, development/testing environments, or any application that benefits from guaranteed resource availability and predictable monthly billing, helping to manage cloud spend without enterprise-level overhead.
- Discounted Pricing: Achieve significant savings compared to pay-as-you-go rates for the specified VM instance type.
- Capacity Reservation: Guarantees that the specified VM instance type is available when you need it in the chosen region.
- 1-Year Term: Provides a fixed commitment period for cost predictability and resource assurance.
- Optimized for Performance: Standard_D4s_v3 instances offer a balance of compute, memory, and storage for general-purpose workloads.
- Simplified Cloud Management: Reduces the complexity of managing fluctuating cloud costs for consistent workloads.
This reserved instance provides SMB and mid-market teams with enterprise-grade cloud cost management and resource assurance for their essential applications.
What This Enables
Ensure consistent performance for critical applications
Enable teams to guarantee resource availability for essential business applications that require consistent uptime and performance. This ensures that core operations are not impacted by fluctuating cloud resource availability or pricing.
persistent workloads, business-critical applications, predictable resource needs, cloud cost management
Streamline cloud budget management
Streamline financial planning by locking in discounted rates for compute resources over a 1-year term. This predictability helps IT Managers forecast cloud expenditures accurately and avoid unexpected cost overruns.
budget forecasting, financial predictability, cost optimization, subscription billing
Automate capacity planning for stable environments
Automate the process of securing necessary compute capacity for stable environments, such as development, testing, or production workloads with consistent demands. This reservation removes the need for constant monitoring and adjustment of resources.
development environments, testing environments, stable production workloads, resource provisioning
Key Features
1-Year Commitment
Locks in discounted pricing for a full year, providing significant cost savings over pay-as-you-go rates.
Standard_D4s_v3 Instance Type
Offers a balanced configuration of CPU, memory, and storage suitable for a wide range of general-purpose business workloads.
US West 2 Region
Guarantees resource availability in a specific geographic location, crucial for latency-sensitive applications or data residency requirements.
Capacity Reservation
Ensures that the specified VM instance type is available when needed, preventing deployment delays or performance degradation.
Subscription Billing
Provides predictable monthly costs, simplifying financial management and budgeting for cloud infrastructure.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require stable, predictable performance and cost control for trading platforms, risk analysis, and customer data management, making reserved instances ideal for consistent workloads.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers need reliable access to patient data systems and diagnostic tools, often with strict data residency and compliance requirements, benefiting from guaranteed capacity and regional control.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers utilize cloud resources for production monitoring, supply chain management, and IoT data processing, requiring consistent performance and predictable costs for operational efficiency.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services organizations manage sensitive client data and require consistent access to case management and document processing systems, benefiting from stable cloud costs and resource availability.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Reserved VM Instance?
A Reserved VM Instance (RI) is a pricing model where you commit to using specific Azure virtual machine resources for a 1-year or 3-year term in exchange for a significant discount compared to pay-as-you-go pricing. It guarantees capacity in the chosen region and instance type.
How does this reservation save my business money?
By committing to a 1-year term for the Standard_D4s_v3 instance in US West 2, you pay a lower rate than the standard on-demand price. This is ideal for workloads that run continuously or for predictable durations, maximizing your savings.
Can I change the VM instance type or region after purchase?
Reserved Instances are specific to the instance type, region, and term purchased. While you cannot directly change these attributes, Azure offers flexibility options such as exchanging or modifying reservations under certain conditions, or you can purchase new reservations for different configurations.
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.