Author: Yashesvi Sharma

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Yashesvi Sharma. With reserved capacity, you get significant discounts over your on-demand costs by committing to long-term usage of a service. We are pleased to share reserved capacity offerings for the following additional services. With the addition of these services, we now support reservations for 16 services, giving you more options to save and get better cost predictability across more workloads. Blob Storage (GPv2) and Azure Data Lake Storage (Gen2). Azure Database for MySQL. Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Azure Database for MariaDB. Azure Data Explorer. Premium SSD Managed Disks. Blob Storage (GPv2) and Azure Data ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Yashesvi Sharma. New Azure reservations features can help you save more on your Azure costs, easily manage reservations, and create internal reports. Based on your feedback, we’ve added the following features to reservations:   Azure Databricks pre-purchase plans You can now save up to 37 percent on your Azure Databricks costs when you pre-purchase Azure Databricks commit units (DBCU) for one or three years. Any Azure Databricks use deducts from the pre-purchased DBUCs automatically. You can use the pre-purchased DBCUs at any time during the purchase term. See our documentation "Optimize Azure Databricks costs with ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Yashesvi Sharma. We’re excited to share more ways to optimize your Azure costs. Today we are releasing the general availability of Azure SQL Data Warehouse reserved capacity and software plans for RedHat Enterprise Linux and SUSE. Save up to 65 percent on your Azure SQL Data Warehouse workloads Starting today, you can purchase Reserved Capacity for Azure SQL Data Warehouse and get up to a 65 percent discount over pay-as-you-go rates. Select from 1-year or 3-year pre-commit options. Reserved capacity is purchased in increments of 100 cDWU. Multiple warehouses in the same region can use ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Yashesvi Sharma. Azure Reservations provide flexibility to help meet your evolving needs. You can exchange a reservation for another reservation of the same type, and you can refund a reservation if you no longer need it. Exchange an existing reserved instance You start the exchange in the Azure portal with Azure Reservations. 1. Select the reservations that you want to refund and choose Exchange. 2. Select the SKU you want to purchase and provide quantity. Make sure that the new purchase total is more than the return total. Determine the right size before you purchase ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Yashesvi Sharma. Expanding reserved instances discounts to classic virtual machines, Azure Cloud Services, and Dev/Test subscriptions Today, we are excited to announce two new Azure Reserved VM Instances’ (RI) features to provide our customers with additional savings and purchase controls. Since launch, we have continued to add multiple features such as instance size flexibility, RIs for US Government regions, purchase recommendations, and RIs in the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) channel. We have also extended the capability to provide reservation discounts on SQL Databases and Cosmos DB. Features that we are launching today: 1. Classic VMs ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Yashesvi Sharma. Reservations are now generally available for US government Azure customers. Reservations are available for virtual machines, SQL Server and Cosmos DB for US Government and US DoD Azure regions. Reservations can help you save money on workloads that have consistent usage, providing price predictability to support your budgeting and forecasting needs. Also, reservations provide unprecedented flexibility should your business need change. We’ve made it easy to exchange your reservations and make changes including the ability to modify your region, sizes or term. Unlike other cloud providers, you can cancel reservations at any time ... Read More