Manage a virtual machine reservation

Jérôme CHARLAT 30 Reputation points
2023-06-12T14:08:43.7733333+00:00

Hello,

I tried to create a reservation for a VM of a certain size. Once the reservation was created, I indeed found the reservation in the Azure reservations section. However, I don't see anything appearing in my VMs. I don't understand how this works.

Thanks for your help.

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Azure Virtual Machines
An Azure service that is used to provision Windows and Linux virtual machines.
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  1. Luca Lionetti 3,231 Reputation points
    2023-06-13T08:28:28.72+00:00

    Hi,

    Welcome to Microsoft Q&A community forum!

    After you buy an Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instance, the reservation discount is automatically applied to virtual

    machines that match the attributes and quantity of the reservation. A reservation covers the compute costs of your virtual machines.

    The Azure reservation discount is applied to running VM instances on an hourly basis. The reservations that you have purchased are matched to the usage emitted by the running VMs to apply the reservation discount.

    No problem if you created the vm after the reservation,

    it works just like this, after you create the reservation and create the vm of that sku the reservation is automatically applied

    ref link:

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/manage/understand-vm-reservation-charges

    Hope this helps

    Cheers

    Luca

    Please "Accept as Answer" and Upvote if the answer provided is useful, so that you can help others in the community looking for remediation for similar issues

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  1. David Smith 0 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2023-06-12T14:20:02.14+00:00

    After you buy an Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instance, the reservation discount is automatically applied to virtual machines that match the attributes and quantity of the reservation. A reservation covers the compute costs of your virtual machines.

    When you deallocate, delete, or scale the number of VMs, the reservation discount automatically applies to another matching resource in the specified scope. If no matching resources are found in the specified scope, then the reserved hours are lost.

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/manage/understand-vm-reservation-charges?toc=%2Fazure%2Fcost-management-billing%2Freservations%2Ftoc.json


  2. Jérôme CHARLAT 30 Reputation points
    2023-06-13T08:12:02.3+00:00

    Thank you very much for explanation. I created the VM after creating the reservation. Will the reservation saving costs be applied on the new VM? If not, my reservation is then completely useless?

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