{"id":121788,"date":"2026-08-03T11:21:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.licensingschool.co.uk\/licensing-blog\/?p=121788"},"modified":"2026-08-03T11:21:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:21:36","slug":"changes-to-the-azure-reservation-exchange-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.licensingschool.co.uk\/licensing-blog\/2026\/08\/03\/changes-to-the-azure-reservation-exchange-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes to the Azure Reservation exchange policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in October 2022 Microsoft announced that there would be changes to the exchange policy for Azure Reservations. That change has been postponed repeatedly until now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the end of July 2026 there was an announcement that from 1 February, 2027 Reservations purchased for any service supported by one of the Azure Savings Plans would no longer be eligible to be exchanged. 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