When a Reservation is purchased, you make some choices. This could include the type of virtual machine family, or the Performance Tier of an Azure SQL Database solution, and your required Azure region. You also choose a scope for it,…
This section gives you details on Reservation scope, payment options, renewals, and the rules for exchanging and canceling Reservations.
A Reservation is a way of making a duration-based commitment to one of the Azure services, or to a Software Plan, to get attractive pricing. The term of a Reservation is typically 1 or 3 years with, perhaps not surprisingly,…
The Azure Hybrid Benefit gives customers the option of using their eligible SQL Server licenses with either on-premises or with Azure virtual machines. Alternatively, they can choose to use the licenses to cover the SQL Server costs for an Azure…
A Reservation is a way of making a duration-based commitment to one of the Azure services to get attractive pricing. If you commit to the compute part of an Azure SQL Managed Instance or Azure SQL Database solution then that’s…
The Azure Hybrid Benefit allows you to bring your own licenses to license the SQL Server part of the Azure virtual machine. Customers are eligible for the Azure Hybrid Benefit if they have active Software Assurance on SQL Server Standard…
The Pay-As-You-Go option works via an all-inclusive cost for the virtual machine: you simply decide on the resources you want the virtual machine to have in terms of the number of cores and the amount of RAM etc. in much…
The two SQL Server PaaS offerings – Azure SQL Managed Instance and Azure SQL Database – follow the same sort of purchasing rules as a SQL Server virtual machine. There’s an option for customers who need a flexible, commitment-free PAYG…
When you buy a SQL Server virtual machine in Azure you need to pay for three components of the VM: the infrastructure, or compute, costs and the costs for the software: Windows Server and SQL Server. As a customer you…
Microsoft use the term Azure SQL to group together the options that customers have for running SQL Server in Azure, and there are three main deployment options, as shown in the diagram below: Firstly there’s an Infrastructure as a Service,…