Microsoft Reserved VM Instance STANDARD_M416-104S_V2
Secure a Microsoft Reserved VM Instance for your critical workloads, guaranteeing capacity and predictable costs for your Azure environment over a 1-year term.
- Guaranteed Capacity: Reserve compute resources in a specific Azure region to ensure availability for your essential applications.
- Cost Savings: Benefit from significantly lower rates compared to pay-as-you-go pricing for predictable, long-term compute needs.
- Performance Assurance: Lock in resources to maintain consistent performance levels for your business-critical workloads.
- Simplified Management: Streamline budgeting and resource planning with a fixed commitment for your Azure virtual machines.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This offering provides a commitment to a specific Azure Virtual Machine instance type, STANDARD_M416-104S_V2, in the US East region for a 1-year term. By reserving this instance, you gain guaranteed access to compute capacity and benefit from discounted pricing compared to on-demand rates, ensuring cost predictability for your Azure deployments.
This solution is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies who require consistent performance and availability for their core business applications hosted on Azure. It fits into environments with predictable, sustained workloads that can benefit from long-term cost optimization and resource commitment.
- Predictable Costs: Lock in pricing for 1 year, avoiding potential fluctuations in on-demand rates.
- Resource Assurance: Guarantee the availability of specific VM instance types in your chosen Azure region.
- Performance Consistency: Ensure your critical applications run on dedicated, reserved capacity.
- Optimized Utilization: Ideal for steady-state workloads that do not require frequent scaling up or down.
- Azure Integration: Seamlessly integrates with your existing Azure environment and management tools.
Reserve your Azure compute capacity with confidence, ensuring performance and cost efficiency for your business-critical applications.
What This Enables
Ensure Consistent Application Performance
Enable teams to guarantee the availability and performance of business-critical applications with dedicated compute resources. Streamline operations by eliminating the risk of performance degradation during peak usage periods.
production workloads, steady-state applications, mission-critical systems, Azure deployments
Optimize Cloud Spend for Predictable Workloads
Streamline budgeting and reduce costs for applications with consistent resource demands over a 1-year term. Automate cost savings by committing to specific VM instance types, avoiding higher pay-as-you-go rates.
long-term hosting, stable application environments, financial planning, Azure cost management
Meet Regulatory Compliance Requirements
Ensure compliance with data residency and performance standards by reserving compute capacity in a specific Azure region. Maintain auditability and control over your application environment's infrastructure.
regulated industries, data sovereignty needs, compliance mandates, Azure infrastructure
Key Features
Reserved Compute Capacity
Guarantees access to the specified VM instance type, ensuring your applications are always available.
1-Year Term Commitment
Provides cost predictability and savings compared to pay-as-you-go pricing for a full year.
Specific Instance Type (STANDARD_M416-104S_V2)
Ensures you have the exact hardware configuration needed for demanding workloads.
US East Region
Allows for deployment in a specific geographic location to meet latency or data residency requirements.
Azure Platform Integration
Seamlessly integrates with your existing Azure environment for unified management and monitoring.
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 resource assurance.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations handle sensitive patient data and critical medical systems that demand consistent uptime and performance, aligning with the reliability offered by reserved Azure capacity.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers often run complex ERP systems, IoT data processing, and supply chain management tools on Azure, benefiting from the cost predictability and guaranteed resources of reserved instances for these sustained workloads.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional service providers rely on secure, always-available platforms for case management, document storage, and client communication, where consistent performance and controlled costs are paramount.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Reserved VM Instance?
A Reserved VM Instance is a commitment to use a specific type of Azure Virtual Machine in a particular region for a 1-year or 3-year term. This commitment allows Microsoft to provide you with significant discounts compared to pay-as-you-go pricing.
How does this reservation save my business money?
By committing to a Reserved VM Instance, you pay a lower rate for the compute capacity than if you were using on-demand instances. This is ideal for workloads with predictable usage patterns, ensuring cost savings over the reservation term.
Can I change the VM instance type or region after purchase?
Reserved Instances can be exchanged for other instances within the same family or region, or canceled with a termination fee. Flexibility options are available to adapt to changing business needs.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
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.