Microsoft Reserved VM Instance, Standard_M416-104ms_v2, 1 Year Term
Commit to a 1-year Microsoft Reserved VM Instance for the Standard_M416-104ms_v2 in US East to lock in predictable costs and ensure capacity for your essential Azure workloads.
- Cost Savings: Achieve significant discounts compared to pay-as-you-go pricing by committing to a 1-year term.
- Capacity Assurance: Reserve compute capacity in the US East region, guaranteeing availability for your critical applications.
- Predictable Budgeting: Stabilize your Azure operational expenses with a fixed, upfront commitment for the specified VM instance.
- Simplified Management: Streamline your Azure cost management by pre-purchasing resources for a defined period.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This offering provides a 1-year reservation for a Microsoft Azure virtual machine instance, specifically the STANDARD_M416-104MS_V2 in the US East region. By committing to this reservation, you secure a discounted rate and guaranteed capacity for your Azure compute resources, ensuring operational continuity and cost predictability for your business-critical applications.
This reserved instance is ideal for SMB and mid-market organizations that rely on Azure for their core operations. IT Managers and Business Owners can utilize this to manage fluctuating workloads, ensure performance for demanding applications, and maintain compliance with internal or external requirements by having dedicated, cost-effective compute resources available.
- Discounted Pricing: Secure substantial savings over pay-as-you-go rates for the duration of the 1-year term.
- Guaranteed Capacity: Reserve compute resources in the specified Azure region, ensuring availability when you need it most.
- Predictable Costs: Lock in your VM instance pricing for 12 months, simplifying budget forecasting and financial planning.
- Flexible Deployment: Apply the reservation to eligible virtual machines, allowing for changes in VM size within the same family or region.
- Compliance Support: Maintain operational stability and meet potential service level agreements by ensuring consistent resource availability.
This 1-year reserved instance offers SMB and mid-market teams a powerful way to control Azure costs while guaranteeing the performance and availability of their critical applications.
What This Enables
Enable predictable Azure spending
Enable teams to forecast and control their Azure compute costs by committing to a 1-year reservation. This ensures a fixed price for essential virtual machines, preventing unexpected budget overruns.
cloud-native applications, business-critical workloads, predictable compute demand, cost optimization initiatives
Guarantee compute capacity
Guarantee the availability of specific virtual machine resources in the US East region for demanding applications. This ensures that critical business processes are not interrupted due to resource constraints.
high-availability deployments, performance-sensitive applications, essential operational systems, scheduled batch processing
Streamline Azure cost management
Streamline the management of Azure cloud expenses by pre-purchasing compute resources for a defined period. This simplifies budgeting and reduces the administrative overhead associated with variable cloud costs.
managed IT environments, multi-application platforms, standardized compute requirements, financial planning cycles
Key Features
1-Year Commitment Term
Locks in pricing for 12 months, providing cost predictability and significant savings compared to pay-as-you-go.
STANDARD_M416-104MS_V2 Instance Type
Provides access to a high-performance VM with substantial memory and vCPUs, suitable for memory-intensive workloads.
US East Region
Ensures compute resources are located in a specific geographic area, meeting data residency or latency requirements.
Discounted Pricing
Reduces the overall cost of Azure compute resources, improving the total cost of ownership for cloud deployments.
Capacity Reservation
Guarantees that the specified compute capacity will be available when needed, preventing performance degradation or service interruptions.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial services firms require high availability and predictable performance for trading platforms, risk analysis, and customer-facing applications, making reserved instances ideal for cost control and capacity assurance.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations handle sensitive patient data and often run complex applications for diagnostics and research, necessitating reliable and cost-effective compute resources to meet strict uptime and compliance requirements.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers utilize cloud resources for IoT data processing, supply chain management, and production analytics, benefiting from reserved instances to ensure consistent performance and predictable costs for their operational technology workloads.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional service providers manage large datasets and client-specific applications, requiring stable and cost-efficient compute power to ensure timely delivery of services and maintain client confidentiality.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Reserved VM Instance?
A Reserved VM Instance is a commitment to use specific Azure virtual machine resources for a 1-year or 3-year term. In exchange for this commitment, you receive a significant discount compared to pay-as-you-go pricing.
How does this reservation save money?
By committing to a specific VM instance type and region for a set term, you pay a lower hourly rate for the compute capacity than if you were to pay for it on a month-to-month basis.
Can I change the VM size or region after purchasing a reservation?
Azure Reserved VM Instances offer flexibility. You can exchange or cancel reservations under certain conditions, and you can modify reservations to change VM size or region within the same family or region.
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.