Microsoft Reserved VM Instance STANDARD_M416-104S_V2
Secure predictable pricing for your Microsoft Azure virtual machines with a 1-year Reserved VM Instance, ensuring continuous operation and cost savings for your business workloads.
- Predictable Costs: Lock in pricing for your Azure compute capacity for 1 year, avoiding potential market fluctuations.
- Guaranteed Capacity: Reserve specific VM instance types in a chosen region, ensuring availability for critical workloads.
- Optimized Performance: Gain access to the STANDARD_M416-104S_V2 instance type, optimized for demanding applications.
- Simplified Budgeting: Enhance financial planning with a fixed cost for your essential Azure infrastructure.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This offering provides a 1-year reservation for a Microsoft Azure STANDARD_M416-104S_V2 virtual machine instance in the US West 2 region. By committing to a reservation, you secure a discounted rate compared to pay-as-you-go pricing, ensuring cost predictability and guaranteed capacity for your Azure compute resources.
This reservation is ideal for businesses, including IT Managers and IT Professionals within SMB and mid-market companies, that have consistent and predictable workloads running on Azure. It fits into your existing Azure environment by pre-purchasing compute capacity, reducing operational overhead and ensuring your critical applications remain available without unexpected cost increases.
- Cost Savings: Achieve significant discounts over pay-as-you-go pricing for your Azure compute.
- Capacity Assurance: Guarantee the availability of your chosen VM instance type in your selected region.
- Budget Predictability: Lock in costs for 1 year, simplifying financial forecasting and management.
- Performance Optimization: Access the specific STANDARD_M416-104S_V2 instance, designed for demanding workloads.
- Simplified Management: Reduce the complexity of managing fluctuating Azure compute costs.
Secure your Azure compute capacity and budget with this 1-year Reserved VM Instance, offering cost predictability and guaranteed resources for your business.
What This Enables
Ensure Consistent Application Performance
Enable teams to guarantee the availability and performance of critical business applications by reserving specific VM instance types. This ensures that essential services remain accessible to users without interruption, supporting continuous operations.
production workloads, mission-critical applications, consistent resource demand, cloud-native applications, business continuity planning
Optimize Cloud Spend Predictability
Streamline financial planning and reduce unexpected cloud expenses by locking in compute costs for a 1-year term. This allows for more accurate budgeting and avoids the variability of pay-as-you-go pricing for stable workloads.
budget-conscious operations, predictable resource utilization, financial forecasting, cost management, operational efficiency
Guarantee Compute Capacity Availability
Automate the process of securing necessary compute resources in a specific Azure region, preventing potential delays or unavailability during peak demand. This ensures your infrastructure scales predictably with business needs.
high-availability requirements, disaster recovery planning, regional deployment strategies, resource provisioning, infrastructure resilience
Key Features
1-Year Reservation Term
Lock in pricing for a full year, providing cost stability and predictability for your Azure compute resources.
STANDARD_M416-104S_V2 Instance Type
Access a powerful VM instance optimized for memory-intensive workloads, ensuring high performance for demanding applications.
US West 2 Region
Deploy your reserved instance in a specific geographic region, aligning with your data residency and latency requirements.
Discounted Pricing
Achieve significant savings compared to pay-as-you-go rates by committing to a reserved instance.
Capacity Guarantee
Ensure your chosen VM instance type is available when you need it, preventing potential resource contention.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require high availability and predictable costs for critical trading, analytics, and customer service platforms, making reserved instances ideal for managing these essential workloads.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must maintain compliance and ensure continuous access to patient data and critical applications, benefiting from the guaranteed capacity and cost predictability of reserved instances for their IT infrastructure.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers rely on stable IT systems for production management, supply chain logistics, and IoT data processing, where reserved instances provide the necessary cost control and resource assurance for these operational backbone systems.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies need secure, reliable access to case management, document storage, and client communication tools, making reserved instances a cost-effective solution for their consistent IT demands.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Reserved VM Instance?
A Reserved VM Instance (RI) is a pricing model that allows you to pre-purchase Azure compute capacity for a 1-year or 3-year term. This commitment provides significant discounts compared to pay-as-you-go pricing and guarantees capacity in a specific region.
How does this reservation save my business money?
By committing to a 1-year term for the STANDARD_M416-104S_V2 instance in US West 2, you secure a lower hourly rate than if you were to pay for the compute on a month-to-month basis. This predictability helps control cloud spending.
What happens after the 1-year term ends?
After the 1-year term concludes, the reservation expires. You can then choose to purchase a new reservation for continued savings and capacity guarantees, or revert to pay-as-you-go pricing for that instance type.
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.