Microsoft Reserved VM Instance STANDARD_M128S_V2, 1 Year
Secure a Microsoft Reserved VM Instance for your business operations with a 1-year commitment, ensuring dedicated capacity and cost savings for your critical workloads.
- Dedicated Capacity: Guarantees the availability of your chosen VM size for predictable performance.
- Cost Savings: Offers significant discounts compared to pay-as-you-go pricing for consistent workloads.
- 1-Year Commitment: Provides a stable and predictable cost structure for your infrastructure planning.
- Azure Optimization: Ideal for businesses running stable, long-term workloads on Microsoft Azure.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This offering provides a Microsoft Reserved Virtual Machine Instance for the STANDARD_M128S_V2 size, located in the US South Central region, with a commitment term of 1 year. It allows businesses to reserve compute capacity in advance, ensuring availability and offering substantial cost savings over on-demand pricing for predictable workloads.
This reservation is designed for businesses that utilize Microsoft Azure for their IT operations, including SMBs and mid-market companies. It is suitable for IT Managers and IT Professionals managing cloud infrastructure, ensuring that critical applications and services have the necessary compute resources without the overhead of managing physical hardware.
- Predictable Performance: Guarantees compute capacity for your applications, preventing performance degradation.
- Cost Efficiency: Achieves significant savings through a 1-year commitment on Azure compute resources.
- Capacity Assurance: Ensures your VM instance is available when you need it, crucial for business continuity.
- Simplified Management: Reduces the complexity of cloud resource planning and budgeting.
- Azure Integration: Seamlessly integrates with your existing Microsoft Azure environment.
This reserved instance is the ideal choice for SMB and mid-market teams seeking to optimize their Azure spending and guarantee performance for their essential business applications.
What This Enables
Ensure Consistent Application Performance
Enable teams to guarantee the availability and performance of critical business applications. This ensures that essential services remain accessible and responsive to users without interruption.
cloud-native deployments, hybrid cloud environments, virtualized infrastructure, dedicated application hosting
Optimize Cloud Infrastructure Costs
Streamline cloud spending by committing to a 1-year term for predictable workloads. This reduces overall expenditure compared to pay-as-you-go rates, freeing up budget for other IT initiatives.
long-term workload hosting, stable compute requirements, budget-sensitive operations, resource-intensive applications
Plan for Scalable Compute Capacity
Automate the reservation of specific VM instance types to meet ongoing operational demands. This simplifies capacity planning and ensures resources are provisioned in advance.
production environments, development and testing labs, data processing workloads, business continuity planning
Key Features
STANDARD_M128S_V2 Instance Type
Provides a powerful virtual machine configuration suitable for demanding enterprise workloads, ensuring robust performance for your applications.
1-Year Commitment Term
Locks in pricing for a full year, offering significant cost savings over on-demand rates and simplifying financial forecasting for your cloud spend.
US South Central Region
Ensures your compute resources are located in a specific geographic area, optimizing latency and meeting data residency requirements for your users.
Reserved Instance Pricing
Applies discounted rates to your Azure usage, directly reducing your monthly cloud infrastructure costs for the specified VM type.
Capacity Reservation
Guarantees that the compute capacity for your chosen VM size is available when you need it, preventing unexpected downtime or performance issues.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require high availability and predictable performance for trading platforms, risk analysis, and customer-facing applications, making reserved instances ideal for cost-effective, reliable compute.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations need consistent access to patient data systems, medical imaging processing, and research platforms, where reserved instances ensure critical services remain operational and cost-controlled.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers rely on stable cloud infrastructure for IoT data processing, supply chain management, and production monitoring, benefiting from the cost predictability and guaranteed capacity of reserved instances.
Retail & Hospitality
Retailers and hospitality businesses use cloud services for point-of-sale systems, inventory management, and customer engagement platforms, where reserved instances provide cost-effective, reliable performance during peak operational periods.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Reserved VM Instance?
A Reserved VM Instance is a commitment to use a specific type of virtual machine for a set term, typically 1 or 3 years, in exchange for a significant discount compared to pay-as-you-go pricing. It guarantees capacity and optimizes costs for predictable workloads.
How does this save my business money?
By committing to a 1-year term for the STANDARD_M128S_V2 instance in US South Central, you receive a lower per-hour rate than if you were to pay for the VM on a month-to-month basis. This is ideal for workloads that run continuously or for extended periods.
Can I change the VM size or region later?
While the core commitment is to the instance type and region, Microsoft Azure offers flexibility. You can exchange or modify reserved instances under certain conditions, often through the Azure portal or by contacting support, to better align with evolving needs.
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.