Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Reviews & Product Details

- Seamlessly and easily integrated with the Azure infrastructure and aids in creating a cohesive ecosystem.

- Extensive documentation ensures Customer Support.

- Azure automatically applies reservation discount to eligible VMs when a reservation is purchased, indicating ease of implementation.

- Evidently beneficial as compared to pay-as-you-go pricing and includes greater benefit for longer commitments.

- Cost is optimised based on geographical needs ensuring benefits to consistent and predictable requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Only available for Azure-native services hindering flexibility and interoperability for enterprises that also incorporate third-party solutions.

- Demands upfront and long-term commitment.

- Does not account for inconsistent and unpredictable requirements.

- It is cumbersome to manually monitor and modify the reservations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The easy to use azure portal makes creating and deploying VMs with the operating system of your choice incredibly simple. Pay as you go and the scalability that comes with the cloud setup is extremely beneficial. Best part of the solution is the detailed documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Don’t know whether it’s fair to say this as something you dislike but the large number of services and feature sometimes become overwhelming at for the user and make it challenging to navigate and select the best solutions for specific needs without proper guidance or experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

These azure reserved virtual machines are very cost friendly especially the one year or 3 year reservation makes it perfect for budget estimation to buisnesses or enterprises

These offer consistent performance due to their guaranteed capacity and full time customer support

Although they have a Cancellation charge but these can be easily exchanged or cancelled according to the requirement of the workload Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Although I don't have any dislikes but these can be quite limiting if u have unpredictable workload Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Azure reserved VM instances gives us the flexibility to gain noticeable discount over pay as you go pricing if commited to use for 1 year or 3 years. Microsoft mentions that savings can be up to 50% for a 3 year commitment which is a great saving for organizations or enterprises that are planning to move their infra to Azure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There's always a doubt in mind, if enterprises are able to commit for the reservations before hand and use them to the full capacity and upfront payments for the commited duration is also an area of concern for some of them and on the other side reserved VM instances are not offered on all the VM sku sizes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Azure Reserved Virtual Machines feature provides one of the greatest cost-saving options in any environment

We can utilize it cost-effectively with one-year or 3-year reservations by paying upfront

Is easy to forecast our budget estimation almost perfectly with this feature

It's easy to Implement and get support from customer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't see any dislikes or disadvantages with this feature

Because, it gives you the option for one or 3-year terms so that we can plan our future rollouts effectively Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We can save huge discount on Azure Virtual machines by Reserving them, Azure Reserved Virtual machines are highly performing, scalable and reliable machines which we can use for our production and dev server, We can subscribe and spin up these machine with just few clicks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Auto stop/start features wont help much in Azure reserved virtual machine since it will be chargeable during stop hours as well, Cancellation fee will be high once microsoft introduced the charges for cancellation. Integration is quite difficult with other OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.