Microsoft Reserved VM Instance STANDARD_M128MS_V2
Commit to a Microsoft Azure STANDARD_M128MS_V2 virtual machine instance in US East for three years to lock in significant cost savings and ensure capacity.
- Predictable Pricing: Lock in a fixed rate for your VM instance over a 3-year term, avoiding potential price fluctuations.
- Guaranteed Capacity: Reserve compute capacity in the US East region, ensuring availability for your critical workloads.
- Cost Optimization: Significantly reduce your overall Azure spending compared to pay-as-you-go rates for sustained workloads.
- Simplified Management: Streamline cloud cost management with a single, long-term commitment for a specific VM size and region.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This offering provides a reservation for a Microsoft Azure STANDARD_M128MS_V2 virtual machine instance located in the US East region, secured for a commitment of three years. By purchasing this reservation, you gain access to a specific VM configuration at a predetermined price, ensuring both cost predictability and resource availability for your Azure deployments.
This type of reservation is ideal for businesses with consistent and predictable Azure compute needs. IT Managers and IT Professionals can utilize this to stabilize budgets, guarantee performance for essential applications, and manage cloud resources more effectively without the overhead of managing individual VM lifecycles or fluctuating costs.
- Cost Savings: Achieve substantial discounts compared to pay-as-you-go pricing for the specified VM instance type.
- Capacity Assurance: Reserve compute capacity in the US East region, ensuring your workloads have the resources they need when they need them.
- Flexible Billing: Choose between upfront payment or monthly payments for the 3-year term, aligning with your financial preferences.
- Resource Commitment: Secure a specific VM size (STANDARD_M128MS_V2) for your critical applications and services.
- Azure Integration: Seamlessly integrates with your existing Azure environment, requiring no changes to your deployed applications.
Secure your Azure compute resources and optimize your cloud budget with this 3-year reservation, perfect for SMB and mid-market organizations.
What This Enables
Enable predictable cloud spending
Enable teams to forecast and stabilize their Azure compute expenses by committing to a specific VM instance for a set duration. This provides budget certainty and avoids unexpected cost increases.
organizations with stable workloads, businesses requiring budget predictability, IT departments managing cloud costs, companies with long-term project plans
Guarantee compute capacity
Ensure critical applications and services have dedicated compute resources available when needed by reserving capacity in a specific Azure region. This prevents performance degradation due to resource contention.
businesses running mission-critical applications, organizations with high-availability requirements, teams managing production environments, companies with seasonal or event-driven demand
Optimize Azure VM costs
Streamline cloud cost management by securing a significant discount on STANDARD_M128MS_V2 VM instances compared to pay-as-you-go rates. This maximizes the return on cloud investment for sustained workloads.
companies with consistent VM usage, IT professionals seeking cost efficiencies, businesses migrating workloads to Azure, organizations optimizing their cloud footprint
Key Features
3-Year Commitment Term
Locks in a lower price for your Azure compute resources over an extended period, providing significant cost savings compared to pay-as-you-go.
STANDARD_M128MS_V2 Instance Type
Secures a specific, high-performance virtual machine configuration suitable for memory-intensive workloads.
US East Region
Guarantees compute capacity availability in a specific geographic location, crucial for latency-sensitive applications and disaster recovery planning.
Discounted Pricing
Reduces your overall Azure operational expenditure by offering a substantial discount on the hourly compute rate for the reserved instance.
Capacity Reservation
Ensures that the compute resources you need are available when you need them, preventing potential downtime or performance issues.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial services firms require predictable costs and guaranteed capacity for critical trading platforms, risk analysis tools, and customer-facing applications to meet strict operational and compliance demands.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations need reliable and secure compute resources for patient record systems, medical imaging analysis, and research applications, often subject to stringent HIPAA compliance and uptime requirements.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers utilize Azure for operational technology, supply chain management, and IoT data processing, requiring consistent performance and cost control for their production and analytics workloads.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional service providers rely on stable and cost-effective cloud infrastructure for case management, document processing, and client collaboration, where budget predictability is key.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Reserved VM Instance?
A Reserved VM Instance (RI) is a commitment to use specific Azure virtual machine types in a particular region for a one- or three-year term. In exchange for this commitment, you receive a significant discount on the hourly compute rate.
How does this reservation save me money?
By committing to a 3-year term for the STANDARD_M128MS_V2 instance in US East, you pay a lower hourly rate than the standard pay-as-you-go price. This is ideal for workloads that run continuously or predictably.
Does this reservation guarantee performance?
While it guarantees the compute capacity is available for your use in the specified region, actual performance depends on your application's configuration, network, and other Azure services you utilize.
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.