Microsoft Reserved VM Instance Standard_NV12s_v3 1 Year
Secure your Azure compute resources with a 1-year Microsoft Reserved VM Instance for the Standard_NV12s_v3 series, ensuring predictable performance and cost efficiency.
- Cost Savings: Lock in lower prices compared to pay-as-you-go for consistent Azure compute needs.
- Performance Assurance: Guarantee availability of specific VM instance types for your critical applications.
- Predictable Budgeting: Simplify financial planning with fixed costs for your Azure infrastructure over a 12-month term.
- Resource Commitment: Reserve capacity in the US West 2 region, ensuring your workloads have the resources they need.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This offering provides a 1-year reservation for a Microsoft Azure Standard_NV12s_v3 Virtual Machine instance in the US West 2 region. By committing to a reservation, you secure a specific VM type and region, enabling significant cost savings compared to on-demand pricing while guaranteeing resource availability for your critical applications.
This reservation is ideal for businesses with predictable Azure compute needs, such as IT Managers overseeing application hosting, IT Professionals managing development and testing environments, or Business Owners requiring consistent performance for core business operations. It integrates directly into your existing Azure subscription, providing a cost-effective foundation for your cloud infrastructure.
- Reserved Capacity: Guarantees the availability of Standard_NV12s_v3 VM instances in US West 2.
- Cost Optimization: Offers substantial savings over pay-as-you-go pricing for long-term compute needs.
- Flexible Billing: Subscription-based billing for a 1-year term simplifies financial management.
- Azure Integration: Seamlessly applies to your Azure subscription, requiring no additional software installation.
- Performance Consistency: Ensures your applications run on dedicated, reserved resources for predictable performance.
Optimize your Azure spend and ensure consistent performance by reserving your Standard_NV12s_v3 VM instance for a full year.
What This Enables
Guarantee Compute Capacity for Critical Applications
Enable teams to ensure their most important applications, such as core business systems or customer-facing services, have consistent and reliable compute resources. This reservation prevents performance degradation or downtime due to fluctuating on-demand availability.
Cloud-native applications, business-critical systems, hosted services, production environments
Optimize Azure Spending with Predictable Costs
Streamline financial planning by locking in compute costs for a 1-year term, significantly reducing expenses compared to pay-as-you-go rates. This allows for more accurate budgeting and avoids unexpected spikes in cloud expenditure.
Long-term cloud deployments, cost-sensitive operations, budget-constrained IT departments, financial forecasting
Support Consistent Development and Testing Workloads
Automate the provisioning of stable environments for development, testing, and staging, ensuring that teams have the necessary compute power available whenever needed. This accelerates development cycles and improves the reliability of testing outcomes.
Agile development teams, continuous integration pipelines, QA processes, pre-production environments
Key Features
Reserved Instance Commitment
Secures a specific VM instance type and region for a 1-year term, providing cost savings and guaranteed availability.
Standard_NV12s_v3 Instance Type
Provides access to a VM configuration optimized for specific workloads, ensuring appropriate performance characteristics.
US West 2 Region
Guarantees compute resources are located in a specific geographic area, essential for latency or compliance needs.
1-Year Term
Offers a balance between commitment and flexibility, providing cost benefits over pay-as-you-go without a multi-year lock-in.
Subscription Billing
Simplifies financial management with predictable, recurring charges for your reserved compute capacity.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require highly available and performant compute resources for trading platforms, risk analysis, and customer portals, often with strict uptime SLAs and data residency requirements.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations need reliable infrastructure for electronic health records (EHR), medical imaging, and research, demanding consistent performance and adherence to strict data privacy regulations like HIPAA.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers utilize cloud resources for IoT data processing, supply chain management, and operational analytics, requiring predictable performance and capacity for real-time data handling.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies rely on secure and consistent access to case management systems, document repositories, and client communication tools, where downtime can have significant business impact.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Reserved VM Instance?
A Reserved VM Instance is a commitment to use a specific type of virtual machine in a particular Azure region for a set term (1 or 3 years). In exchange for this commitment, you receive a significant discount compared to pay-as-you-go pricing.
How does a Reserved VM Instance save money?
By reserving capacity, you pay a lower hourly rate for the compute resources. This is ideal for workloads with consistent usage patterns where you can predict your needs over the reservation term.
Can I change my VM instance type or region after purchasing a reservation?
Azure offers some flexibility with reservations, allowing exchanges or modifications under certain conditions, often with limitations. It is best to carefully select your instance type and region upfront based on your anticipated 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.