Microsoft Reserved VM Instance STANDARD_L80S_V2
Secure predictable costs for your essential Azure virtual machines with a 3-year Microsoft Reserved VM Instance commitment, ensuring consistent performance and availability for your business applications.
- Cost Savings: Lock in significant discounts compared to pay-as-you-go pricing for your Azure compute resources over a 3-year term.
- Performance Assurance: Guarantee capacity for your critical workloads in the US Central region, ensuring consistent performance.
- Budget Predictability: Stabilize your cloud spending with fixed monthly or upfront payments for your reserved instances.
- Operational Continuity: Maintain uninterrupted access to your essential virtual machines, supporting continuous business operations.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This offering provides a Microsoft Reserved Virtual Machine Instance for the STANDARD_L80S_V2 size, located in the US Central region, committed for a 3-year term. It allows businesses to pre-purchase Azure compute capacity at a discounted rate, ensuring availability and predictable costs for their essential virtual machines.
Ideal for SMB and mid-market companies with predictable Azure compute needs, this reservation is managed through a subscription billing model. It fits into environments running critical business applications, databases, or development/testing workloads that require consistent performance and cost management.
- Discounted Pricing: Achieve substantial savings on Azure compute costs by committing to a 3-year term.
- Capacity Reservation: Ensure your virtual machines have guaranteed capacity in the specified region.
- Flexible Payment Options: Choose between upfront payment for maximum savings or monthly payments for predictable cash flow.
- Simplified Management: Integrate seamlessly with your existing Azure environment for easy management and monitoring.
- Long-Term Planning: Facilitates better financial planning and budgeting for your cloud infrastructure.
This 3-year reservation is the smart choice for SMB and mid-market teams seeking to optimize Azure costs and guarantee performance for their vital business applications.
What This Enables
Ensure Consistent Application Performance
Enable teams to maintain uninterrupted service for customer-facing applications or internal business systems. This reservation guarantees the compute capacity needed to handle steady or predictable workloads without performance degradation.
cloud-native applications, business-critical systems, predictable workload environments, subscription-based billing
Optimize Cloud Budget Predictability
Streamline financial planning by locking in discounted rates for Azure compute resources over a 3-year term. This reduces exposure to market price fluctuations and simplifies budget allocation for IT operations.
financial planning, cost management, long-term IT strategy, subscription services
Support Regulatory Compliance Needs
Automate adherence to data residency and performance standards by reserving compute capacity in a specific Azure region. This ensures your infrastructure meets the requirements for sensitive data processing and operational uptime.
data residency requirements, operational uptime SLAs, regulated industries, specific geographic deployments
Key Features
3-Year Commitment Term
Achieve substantial discounts on Azure compute costs compared to pay-as-you-go pricing, leading to significant long-term savings.
STANDARD_L80S_V2 Instance Size
Access a specific, powerful virtual machine configuration optimized for demanding workloads, ensuring adequate resources for your applications.
US Central Region
Guarantee compute capacity in a specific geographic location, supporting data residency requirements and low-latency access for users in that area.
Subscription Billing
Manage cloud expenses with predictable monthly or upfront payment options, simplifying financial forecasting and budgeting.
Capacity Reservation
Ensure your critical workloads always have the necessary compute resources available, preventing performance bottlenecks and downtime.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require highly available and performant systems for trading, risk management, and customer transactions, making reserved instances crucial for cost predictability and guaranteed capacity.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers rely on consistent access to patient data systems and diagnostic tools, necessitating stable infrastructure performance and adherence to strict data privacy regulations like HIPAA.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers use cloud resources for operational technology, supply chain management, and data analytics, requiring reliable compute power to maintain production schedules and optimize processes.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional service organizations handle sensitive client data and require secure, always-on access to case management and document management systems, benefiting from predictable costs and performance.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Microsoft Reserved VM Instance?
A Reserved VM Instance is a commitment to use specific Azure virtual machine types in a particular region for a 1- or 3-year term. In exchange for this commitment, you receive a significant discount on the compute costs of those VMs compared to pay-as-you-go pricing.
How does this reservation save my business money?
By committing to a 3-year term, you secure a lower hourly rate for your Azure compute resources. This is ideal for workloads with predictable usage patterns, ensuring cost efficiency over the long term.
Can I change the VM size or region after purchasing a reservation?
While the reservation is tied to a specific VM size and region, Azure offers flexibility. You can exchange or modify reservations under certain conditions, and you can also reserve capacity in different regions if needed.
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.