Promotional offer for Linux VMs

We’re excited to announce promotional offers on several Linux virtual machine (VM) series to help you optimize your Azure costs.

From October 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025, you can enjoy an additional 15% discount on top of your current one-year discount on Azure Reserved VM Instances. This can result in total cost savings of up to 56% compared to pay-as-you-go rates.

What’s included in the promotional offer?

This promotional offer applies to several of the latest AMD, Intel, and Arm-based Azure VMs in multiple regions. Built for new purposes once generally available Cobalt100 Arm-based VM This offering includes solutions designed for cloud-native and Linux-based applications.

Offers are available worldwide to all regions Where to buy Azure VM Reserved Instances except For EU West (Amsterdam), EU North (Dublin), AP South East (Singapore) and QA Central (Qatar).

This offer applies to various VM series including:

• AMD-based VM series: Dasv6, Dadsv6, Dalsv6, Daldsv6, Easv6, Eadsv6, Lasv3, DCadsv5, DCasv5, ECadsv5, ECasv5
• Cobalt 100 Arm-based VM series: Dpdsv6, Dpldsv6, Dplsv6, Dpsv6, Epdsv6, Epsv6
• Intel-based VM series: Ddv5, Ddsv5, Dlsv5, Dv5, Dsv5, Edv5, Edsv5, Ev5, Esv5, and Lsv32.

However, certain VMs in certain regions, including US East, US Gov Iowa, and US Gov Virginia, are not eligible for this promotion.

For more information, see: Terms of Use.

How can I take advantage of this promotional offer?

To take advantage of this promotion, you must: purchase 1 year Azure Reserved VM Instances For eligible VM SKUs and regions.

This offer is available to customers with the following Azure subscription types:

• Enterprise (MS-AZR-0017P or MS-AZR-0148P)
• Pay as you go (MS-AZR-0003P or MS-AZR-0023P)
• Microsoft Customer Agreement

Cloud solution providers can use the Azure portal or Partner Center Purchase Azure Reservations.

Discounts are automatically applied to the number of VMs running in eligible regions that match the reservation scope and characteristics. Discount is valid for one year from the date of purchase and only applies to resources associated with subscriptions purchased through Enterprise, Cloud Solution Provider (CSP), Microsoft Customer Agreement, and Personal plans with pay-as-you-go rates.

Why choose Azure Reserved VM Instances?

Azure Reserved VM Instance (or RI) offers significant cost savings compared to pay-as-you-go pricing by committing to a 1-year or 3-year plan. You can pay for your RI upfront or choose to pay monthly at no additional cost.

Take advantage of this promotional offer to further optimize your cloud spending. Azure RI also provides instance size flexibility to apply reservation discounts to different VMs in the same size group and region to best meet your changing needs.

Be safe and AI-ready

There’s no better time than now to modernize your IT assets and transition your Linux workloads to Azure, a cloud platform purpose-built for the AI ​​era that enables limitless innovation at your fingertips.

• Built-in security and compliance From code to cloud, supported by more than $4 billion in annual investments in cybersecurity, 10,000+ security experts, and 100+ compliance services.

• Massive scalability, cost-effectiveness, and performance Includes the outstanding price/performance that the latest Azure Virtual Machines can deliver.
• Azure meets you on your cloud and AI journey. adaptive cloud Our approach increases operational agility across hybrid and multicloud environments.

Get started now!

Don’t miss this fantastic opportunity to make the most of your IT budget. To take advantage of this offer, purchase one year of Azure Reserved VM Instances for a qualifying VM series in an eligible region between October 1, 2024 and March 31, 2025.

For more information about purchasing and managing Azure Reserved VM Instances, visit: Azure portal Or, contact your Azure representative.

Experience additional savings by combining this promotional offer with other options: Azure Hybrid Benefit for Linux This allows you to leverage your existing Red Hat and SUSE Linux subscriptions on Azure at no additional cost.