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Save up to 50 percent compared to pay-as-you-go pricing when you purchase one-year Azure Reserved Virtual Machine (VM) Instances for Dv3s VMs in US West for a limited time. This offer is available between September 1, 2023 – February 29, 2024.

Note

This limited-time offer expired on March 1, 2024. You can still purchase Azure Reserved VM Instances at regular discounted prices. For more information about reservation discount, see How the Azure reservation discount is applied to virtual machines.

Purchase the limited time offer

To take advantage of this limited-time offer, purchase a one-year term for Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances for qualified Dv3s instances in the US West 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-year Azure Reserved VM Instance in US West between September 1, 2023 (12 AM Pacific Standard Time) – February 29, 2024 (11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time), for any of the following VM series:

  • D2v3
  • D4v3
  • D8v3
  • D16v3
  • D32v3
  • D48v3
  • D64v3

The offer provides them with a discount up to 50% compared to pay-as-you-go pricing. The savings doesn't include operating system costs. Actual savings may vary based on instance type or usage.

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 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 won't be able to purchase a reservation if you have a custom role that mimics 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 visit, see Buy an Azure reservation.

Offer details - Upon successful purchase and payment for the one-year Azure Reserved VM Instance in US West for one or more of the qualified VMs during the specified period, the discount applies automatically to the number of running virtual machines in US West 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 may 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 50% discount, customers must make a purchase of the one-year Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances. The purchase must be for one of the following qualified VMs in US West between September 1, 2023, and February 29, 2024:

  • D2v3
  • D4v3
  • D8v3
  • D16v3
  • D32v3
  • D48v3
  • D64v3

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 US West that match the reservation scope and attributes.
  • The discount applies for one year after the date of purchase.
  • The discount only applies to resources associated with subscriptions purchased through Enterprise, 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

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-year Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances for the qualified VMs in US West between September 1, 2023, and February 29, 2024, you'll continue to get the discount throughout the one-year term, 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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