>> Hey friends. On a recent episode of Azure Friday,
we talked about how you can significantly reduce
costs with Azure Reserved VM Instances.
Yashesvi is back to update us on
Reserve VM Instance size flexibility and has
important news to share about new ways you
can save money with Azure SQL databases,
Cosmos DB, and on SUSE VMs too today on Azure Friday.
Hey folks, I'm Scott Hanselman.
This is another episode of Azure Friday.
I'm here with Yashesvi, who's coming back to share
more cool stuff happening with Azure Reservations.
You're saving money last time,
you're going to save me even more money
right now and hopefully,
I'll save some money for
the folks that are watching the show.
>> Absolutely, and make your
Reservation Management much easier.
>> Really? That's fun.
>> So, last time we spoke about how Azure Reservations,
VM Reservations, can save you money.
Since then, we've been busy working on new features.
One feature that we have just recently
launched is Instance size flexibility.
What that does is if you buy a reservation
for size, let's say F1,
but later your needs change and you moved to F2 VM,
your reservation will automatically apply to F2.
You don't have to go return
that reservation and rebuy something else.
>> Okay, I don't have to delete VMs, assign reservations.
I just go from a two seater car to a four seater car,
and I assume what,
if I double the size of my VM
then the reservation is proportional?
>> Yes. So, the reservation applies in
the ratio of the VM's pricing. So, I have the chart here.
So, F1 to F2 ratio is one is to two.
So, if you buy one F1 but you later,
let's say move to F2 VM,
half of it is going to be
reserved and other half is going to be charged on demand.
>> I see. So, if I had two F1s I've reserved,
I could move to an F2 and that would go straight across.
>> That will just totally zero out your F2 usage.
You won't have to pay anything on demand.
>> Well, that's comforting because now
people don't have to have that sense of like,
yeah, I want to commit to three years.
I know I'll be using compute,
I just don't know what size I'll
be using for the next three years.
>> Yes, and now it's totally flexible
within the VM size group.
>> That's fantastic, and people already get this,
even people with existing reservations have this benefit.
>> People existing, yes.
People with existing reservations have this benefit,
and if you had a single scoped reservation earlier,
you can go change it to Instance
size flexibility from capacity priority
and start getting this benefit.
>> Very cool.
>> Yeah. So, that's
the first thing I wanted to share it out.
Here's the UI, so I selected a data center East US.
I selected F1 Series here,
and here's the Instance size flexibility option,
and I tell you in the UI that
this reservation discount will apply to F1, F2, F4,
F8 or F16, which are the VMs in the same VM size group,
and the ratio is available here.
So, you can just go get all the information that you
need and confidently buy this reservation.
>> Okay.
>> So, that's the first thing that
we just recently launched.
The next thing that we have been
busy is expanding reservations
to other products on Azure.
So, besides VM, we
also have reservations of a label for SQL now,
and Cosmos DB, and SUSE Linux.
>> Nice. This is going to be huge for people that are
using these products because I assume
that if they're watching right now,
they are using this product already,
they could pause this episode of
Azure Friday and immediately start saving money for real.
>> Yes. Absolutely. You can buy
a reservation right now and start
saving money on SQL, Cosmos, SUSE also.
>> Awesome.
>> So, this is the SQL purchase experience.
It's very simple.
You just have to go select the data center and
then vote general purpose or business
critical and the generation of the SQL that you use.
You don't have to pick a SQL database,
we will just automatically give you the discount.
>> Okay. So, to be clear,
if someone is watching this show right now,
they're using the SQL patch, right?
The SQL as a service,
and they're paying full price,
but they know they're going to be using it for a year,
two years, three years,
they could go and set up a reservation and they
don't need to move the database transfer,
move things around as long as
the region is in the right place.
It will automatically apply.
>> It's a billing benefit. You don't
have to do anything with the resources,
you don't have to touch your resources,
we will automatically apply the reservation discount
on your SQL instance at the time of billing.
>> That's super useful sorts of billing benefit,
really important thing to remember,
they don't have to restart
anything or move anything around,
and they're going to save a huge amount.
They can see there at the bottom.
It actually calculates the percentage.
>> Yes. So, this is the saving
on your compute usage for SQL.
You can save up to 55% here on this configuration.
>> So, when people use SQL, they're built for
the compute of SQL which they can save huge amounts on,
and then of course, there's the SQL license cost.
How can people save money on that?
>> Yeah. So for license cost,
you can use Azure Hybrid Benefits.
If you have a license with
software assurance in your enterprise contract,
you can just use that on
your SQL patch deployment and then save on the IP also.
>> Okay. So, if I have a SQL server
running under my desk,
and I then buy a reserved one
and I move it up into the cloud,
I can turn off the one under my desk
and move that license into the cloud.
>> Yes. You can totally do that and here you
can increase your savings up to 80% by doing that.
>> Really? So the Hybrid Benefit gets
me even more benefits,
even cheaper price with reservation.
>> Yeah. So, you combine reservations with
Hybrid Benefits to get
your discount percentage up to 80%.
>> 80%? Okay. Cool. This is really
important like you can do this right now.
You may be putting money
away that you don't need to. That's fantastic.
>> You can do this right now on SQL,
you can do this right now on Windows VMs also.
>> Seriously? So that Hybrid Benefit
works on Windows VMs as well.
>> On Windows VM and SQLs.
I'll put the link with the video
for the hybrid use benefits also.
>> Fantastic.
>> Yes. So, that's
another thing that we just recently launched.
As I said, we've been working
on other ways also to save money,
and Cosmos DB is a new reservation offering.
If you use Cosmos DB,
you can go buy reservations for
Cosmos DB also and then
start saving money on that as well.
>> Nice.
>> Yeah. The way Cosmos DB works is,
the reservation discount changes by
how much you commit to do reserve,
the capacity that you reserve.
If you reserve 100k per hour are used per second,
you get about 30% discount.
If your usage is more,
let's say 1 million RU per second per
hour usage and you buy
a reservation your discount goes up to,
in this case, 40%.
So, the more you use, the more you save.
>> Yeah.
>> So, the more you use,
the more you can commit here and start just
saving more and more on on
Cosmos DB as well going forward.
>> Nice.
>> The last thing that we have
been working on and we just recently launched
is SUSE Linux software purchase discounts.
So, if you have any SUSE VMs,
you can pre-purchase software
for that also and then save money.
You can save up to 64% on
your SUSE software and support part.
>> Just as you said before, if I understand correctly,
this is again a billing benefits.
If you are, you may be watching this video,
you may already have SUSE VMs,
you can apply this now, save money now.
How can I make sure I'm saving the right money?
Some of us run building reports
and we bring those things into Excel,
we look at the billing APIs.
I want to make sure that the benefit that I pay for,
that the reservation I pay for,
got applied to the resource
I expected it to be applied to.
>> Yeah. So, there's two ways.
You can look at your reservation of the purchase
and it'll show you the utilization percentage.
Let's say your reservation was used
50% or 100%, it'll tell you there itself.
>> Okay.
>> The other thing that you can do is you can look
at your usage file,
and in the usage file we will tell
you how the reservation was applied.
So, I have a sample here.
I have a VM running,
and in this VM I zero out the resource rate.
I replace the regular meter with
the reservation-based VM meter here,
which is priced at $0.
So, you're not charged for this VM
anymore on a day-to-day basis.
All the details as to which reservation applied on
this VM is in the usage file itself,
the file and the API that you consume on
a daily basis for your cost management reports.
>> Okay. So, you can definitely make sure that you don't
make any mistakes and then you
get the benefits that you pay for.
You can see clearly where the reservation order
ID has been applied to that virtual machine.
>> Yes.
You can get the reservation order ID, reservation ID,
and you can get the consumption meter also that we
zeroed out for this reservation benefit.
>> If you wouldn't mind, show me in
the portal where I would find this.
I notice that there was a Reservations area in the portal
that gives me all of these details in one single place.
>> Yes. So, in the portal,
you can go to the reservation's date here,
and that will show you all your existing reservations.
>> So, this is where I would go to see
my existing reservations as well as make new ones.
>> Yes. You can see the utilization,
you can see the region and
the skills that were purchased and if you want to
purchase a new one you just click on
"Add" and you get all the options to purchase.
>> So, since I saw you last,
you've already added these things.
I assume you're starting to look across Azure for
other opportunities for reform
to save money with reservations.
>> Yes.
We are looking at more and more services and getting
more customer feedback as to how
we can save more for them.
>> Cool. I hope you'll come back when
you've got more to share. That's fantastic.
>> Absolutely.
>> I'm saving all kinds of money with
reservations here on Azure Friday.
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