Save with Azure reservations

Learn how Azure Reservations help you save money by committing to one-year or three-years plans for virtual machines, Azure Blob storage or Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, SQL Database compute capacity, Azure Cosmos DB throughput, and other Azure resources.

Buy reservations

Concept

• What are Azure reservations?
• Reservation purchase recommendations
• Instance size flexibility
• Windows and SQL software cost charged separately

How-To Guide

• Buy a reservation
• Renew reservations

Learn how discounts are applied

Concept

• How a reservation discount is applied

Training

• Save money with Azure reserved instances

Manage reservations after purchase

How-To Guide

• Permissions to view and manage reservations
• Change reservation scope, split, merge
• Exchange and refund reservations

Report costs after purchase

How-To Guide

• Charge back Azure Reservation costs
• View reservation purchase and refund transactions

Reference

• Reservation APIs