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Keep your budget in check with low-cost, per-second billing. You only pay for the compute time you use

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Choose the right VM for your workload and reduce costs

Migrate your business and mission critical workloads to Azure and realise operational efficiencies.
Deploy virtual machines featuring up to 416 vCPUs and 12 TB of memory. Get up to 3.7 million local storage IOPS per VM. Take advantage of up to 30 Gbps Ethernet and cloud’s first deployment of 200 Gbps InfiniBand.

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Optimise your infrastructure and save money

Reduce costs—up to 72 percent compared to pay-as-you-go prices—with term pricing through Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances (RIs). Re-use your on-premises licenses to run Windows Server VMs on Azure with Azure Hybrid Benefit and combine RIs with Azure Hybrid Benefit to save up to 80 percent. Take advantage of spot pricing on Azure VMs and VMSS to run interruptible workloads at deep discounts compared to pay as you go rates. Optimise your cloud spend with Azure Cost Management. Get three more years of free extended security updates for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 when you migrate to Azure.

Best TCO with Azure Hybrid Benefit

Save up to 84 percent compared to Amazon Web Services migrating SQL Server databases with Azure Hybrid Benefit and get free extended support for SQL Server 2008 R2 images in Azure IaaS. Activate Azure Hybrid Benefit when you provision SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines images from the Azure Marketplace.

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Built-in security and manageability

Ease maintenance with automatic security updates and restore your database to a specific point in time with Azure Backup. Help protect your data at rest and in motion with the database rated as least vulnerable over the last nine years3, in the cloud with the most global, national, and industry certifications.