Save on select VMs in Poland Central for a limited time

Save up to 66 percent compared to pay-as-you-go pricing when you purchase one or three-year Azure Reserved Virtual Machine (VM) Instances for select VMs Poland Central for a limited time. This offer is available between October 1, 2023 – March 31, 2024.

Purchase the limited time offer

To take advantage of this limited-time offer, purchase a one or three-year term for Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances for qualified VM instances in the Poland Central region.

Charge back limited time offer costs

Enterprise Agreement and Microsoft Customer Agreement billing readers can view amortized cost data for reservations. They can use the cost data to charge back the monetary value for a subscription, resource group, resource, or a tag to their partners. In amortized data, the effective price is the prorated hourly reservation cost. The cost is the total cost of reservation usage by the resource on that day. Users with an individual subscription can get the amortized cost data from their usage file. For more information, see Charge back Azure Reservation costs.

Terms and conditions of the limited time offer

These terms and conditions (hereinafter referred to as "terms") govern the limited time offer ("offer") provided by Microsoft to customers purchasing a one or three year Azure Reserved VM Instance in Poland Central between October 1, 2023 (12 AM Pacific Standard Time) – March 31, 2024 (11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time), for any of the following VM series:

The 66 percent saving is based on one DS1 v2 Azure VM for Linux in the Poland Central region running for 36 months at a pay-as-you-go rate as of September 2023. Actual savings vary based on location, term commitment, instance type, or usage. The savings doesn't include operating system costs. For more information about how the savings are calculated, see Poland Central reservation savings.

Eligibility - The Offer is open to individuals who meet the following criteria:

• To buy a reservation, you must have the owner role or reservation purchaser role on an Azure subscription that's of one of the following 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 to purchase Azure Reservations. You can't purchase a reservation if you have a custom role that mimics the owner role or reservation purchaser role on an Azure subscription. You must use the built-in owner or built-in reservation purchaser role.
• For more information about who can purchase a reservation, see Buy an Azure reservation.

Offer details - Upon successful purchase and payment for the one or three-year Azure Reserved VM Instance in Poland Central for one or more of the qualified VMs during the specified period, the discount applies automatically to the number of running virtual machines in Poland Central that match the reservation scope and attributes. You don't need to assign a reservation to a virtual machine to get the discounts. A reserved instance purchase covers only the compute part of your VM usage. For more information about how to pay and save with an Azure Reserved VM Instance, see Prepay for Azure virtual machines to save money.

• Additional taxes might apply.
• Payment will be processed using the payment method on file for the selected subscriptions.
• Estimated savings are calculated based on your current on-demand rate.

Qualifying purchase - To be eligible for the limited time offer discount, customers must make a purchase of the one or three-year Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances for one of the following qualified VMs in Poland Central between October 1, 2023, and March 31, 2024.

Instance size flexibility is available for these VMs. For more information about Instance Size Flexibility, see Virtual machine size flexibility.

Discount limitations

• The discount automatically applies to the number of running virtual machines in Poland Central that match the reservation scope and attributes.
• The discount applies for one year or three years after the date of purchase, depending on term length purchased.
• The discount only applies to resources associated with subscriptions purchased through Enterprise Agreement, Cloud Solution Provider (CSP), Microsoft Customer Agreement and individual plans with pay-as-you-go rates.
• A reservation discount is "use-it-or-lose-it." So, if you don't have matching resources for any hour, then you lose a reservation quantity for that hour. You can't carry forward unused reserved hours.
• When you deallocate, delete, or scale the number of VMs, the reservation discount automatically applies to another matching resource in the specified scope. If no matching resources are found in the specified scope, then the reserved hours are lost.
• Stopped VMs are billed and continue to use reservation hours. Deallocate or delete VM resources or scale-in other VMs to use your available reservation hours with other workloads.
• For more information about how Azure Reserved VM Instance discounts are applied, see Understand Azure Reserved VM Instances discount.

Exchanges and refunds - The offer follows standard exchange and refund policies for reservations. For more information about exchanges and refunds, see Self-service exchanges and refunds for Azure Reservations.

Renewals

• The renewal price will not be the limited time offer price, but the price available at time of renewal.
• For more information about renewals, see Automatically renew Azure reservations.

Termination or modification - Microsoft reserves the right to modify, suspend, or terminate the offer at any time without prior notice.

If you have purchased the one or three-year Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances for the qualified VMs in Poland Central between October 1, 2023, and March 31, 2024 you'll continue to get the discount throughout the purchased term length, even if the offer is canceled.

By participating in the offer, customers agree to be bound by these terms and the decisions of Microsoft. Microsoft reserves the right to disqualify any customer who violates these terms or engages in any fraudulent or harmful activities related to the offer.

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• Understand Azure Reserved VM Instances discount
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