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Microsoft finally offers Azure reserved instances

By Steven Kiernan

Nov 17 2017 10:35AM

Eight years after Amazon Web Services.

Microsoft finally offers Azure reserved instances

Microsoft has announced general availability of Azure Reserved Instances, more than eight years after Amazon Web Services launched its own one- and three-year pricing model. Azure Reserved VM instances (RIs), which are now available worldwide, allow customers to reserve virtual machines on a ...

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