{"id":10287,"date":"2018-08-23T15:47:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T13:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schneider.im\/?p=10287"},"modified":"2023-01-16T17:47:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T16:47:03","slug":"microsoft-azure-instance-size-flexibility-for-azure-reserved-virtual-machine-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/microsoft-azure-instance-size-flexibility-for-azure-reserved-virtual-machine-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Azure Instance Size Flexibility for Azure Reserved Virtual Machine available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Microsoft announced the General Availability of Microsoft Azure Instance Size Flexibility for Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances. In the past, when purchasing a Microsoft Reserved Instance, you had to define the size of the virtual machine and the data center. Changing those properties was only possible by using the Exchange function to get a credit for the existing Reserved Instance to use against a new Reserved Instance with the required attributes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This has changed now and you are no longer prepaying for base compute of a particular virtual machine type, instead you\u2019re now prepaying for a certain amount of compute for a particular family in a specific data center. Now, a Reserved Instance can be applied to any virtual machine in that family, covering all or part of the base compute costs.<br \/>\nFor further information on Microsoft Azure Instance Size Flexibility for Azure Reserved Virtual Machine, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/general-availability-of-instance-size-flexibility-for-azure-reserved-virtual-machine-instances\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/general-availability-of-instance-size-flexibility-for-azure-reserved-virtual-machine-instances\/<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/virtual-machines\/windows\/reserved-vm-instance-size-flexibility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/virtual-machines\/windows\/reserved-vm-instance-size-flexibility<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft announced the General Availability of Microsoft Azure Instance Size Flexibility for Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances. In the past, when purchasing a Microsoft Reserved Instance, you had to define the size of the virtual machine and the data center. Changing those properties was only possible by using the Exchange function to get a credit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":9044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-azure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29881,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10287\/revisions\/29881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}