Save on select Azure SQL Services 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 reserved capacity for select Azure SQL Database, SQL Managed Instances, and Azure Database for MySQL in Poland Central for a limited time. This offer is available between November 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 select Azure SQL Databases, SQL Managed Instances, and Azure Database for MySQL in the Poland Central region.

Buy a reservation

1. Sign in to the Azure portal.
2. Select All services > Reservations.
3. Select Add and then select a qualified product listed in the Terms and conditions of the limited time offer section.
4. Select the scope, and then a billing subscription that you want to use for the reservation. You can change the reservation scope after purchase.
5. Set the Region to Poland Central.
6. Select a reservation term and billing frequency.
7. Select Add to cart.
8. In the cart, you can change the quantity. After you review your cart and you're ready to purchase, select Next: Review + buy.
9. Select Buy now.

You can view the reservation in the Reservations page in the Azure portal.

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 reserved capacity for Azure SQL Databases, SQL Managed Instances, and Azure Database for MySQL in Poland Central between November 1, 2023 (12 AM Pacific Standard Time) – March 31, 2024 (11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time), for any of the following services:

• Azure Database for MySQL Single Server General Purpose - Compute Gen5
• Azure Database for MySQL Single Server Memory Optimized - Compute Gen5
• SQL Database Single/Elastic Pool Business Critical - Compute DC-Series
• SQL Database Single/Elastic Pool Business Critical - Compute Gen5
• SQL Database Single/Elastic Pool Business Critical - Compute M Series
• SQL Database Single/Elastic Pool General Purpose - Compute DC-Series
• SQL Database Single/Elastic Pool General Purpose - Compute FSv2 Series
• SQL Database Single/Elastic Pool General Purpose - Compute Gen5
• SQL Database SingleDB/Elastic Pool Hyperscale - Compute Gen5
• SQL Managed Instance Business Critical - Compute Gen5
• SQL Managed Instance General Purpose - Compute Gen5

The 66 percent saving is based on one Azure Database for MySQL Single Server Memory Optimized - Compute Gen5 in the Poland Central region running for 36 months at a pay-as-you-go rate; reduced rate for a three-year reserved capacity. Actual savings might vary based on location, term commitment, instance type, or usage. The savings doesn't include operating system costs. For more information about pricing, see Poland Central SQL Services 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 - For Azure SQL Database or SQL Managed Instance, you make a commitment for SQL Database or SQL Managed Instance use for one or three years to get a significant discount on the compute costs. To purchase reserved capacity, you need to specify the Azure region, deployment type, performance tier, and term.

You don't need to assign the reservation to a specific database or managed instance. Matching existing deployments that are already running or ones that are newly deployed automatically get the benefit. Hence, by purchasing a reserved capacity, existing resources infrastructure wouldn't be modified and thus no failover/downtime is triggered on existing resources. By purchasing a reservation, you commit to usage for the compute costs for one or three years. As soon as you buy a reservation, the compute charges that match the reservation attributes are no longer charged at the pay-as-you go rates.

For more information, see Save compute costs with reserved capacity - Azure SQL Database & SQL Managed Instance.

For Azure Database for MySQL, you make an upfront commitment on MySQL server for a one or three year period to get a significant discount on the compute costs. To purchase Azure Database for MySQL reserved capacity, you need to specify the Azure region, deployment type, performance tier, and term.

You don't need to assign the reservation to specific Azure Database for MySQL servers. An already running Azure Database for MySQL or ones that are newly deployed, automatically get the benefit of reserved pricing. By purchasing a reservation, you're prepaying for the compute costs for one or three years. As soon as you buy a reservation, the Azure database for MySQL compute charges that match the reservation attributes are no longer charged at the pay-as-you go rates. A reservation doesn't cover software, networking, or storage charges associated with the MySQL Database server. At the end of the reservation term, the billing benefit expires. Azure Database for MySQL usage is then billed at the pay-as-you go price.

For more information, see Prepay for compute with reserved capacity - Azure Database for MySQL.

• 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 66% discount, customers must make a purchase of the one or three year reserved capacity for Azure SQL Databases, SQL Managed Instances, and Azure Database for MySQL in Poland Central for one of the following qualified services in Poland Central between November 1, 2023, and March 31, 2024.

• Azure Database for MySQL Single Server General Purpose - Compute Gen5
• Azure Database for MySQL Single Server Memory Optimized - Compute Gen5
• SQL Database Single/Elastic Pool Business Critical - Compute DC-Series
• SQL Database Single/Elastic Pool Business Critical - Compute Gen5
• SQL Database Single/Elastic Pool Business Critical - Compute M Series
• SQL Database Single/Elastic Pool General Purpose - Compute DC-Series
• SQL Database Single/Elastic Pool General Purpose - Compute FSv2 Series
• SQL Database Single/Elastic Pool General Purpose - Compute Gen5
• SQL Database SingleDB/Elastic Pool Hyperscale - Compute Gen5
• SQL Managed Instance Business Critical - Compute Gen5
• SQL Managed Instance General Purpose - Compute Gen5

Discount limitations

• 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 shut down a resource, 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 resources are billed and continue to use reservation hours. Deallocate or delete resources or scale-in other resources to use your available reservation hours with other workloads.

• For more information about how reservation discounts are applied, see How a reservation discount is applied.

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 reserved capacity for Azure SQL Databases, SQL Managed Instances, and Azure Database for MySQL qualified services in Poland Central between November 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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