Azure Reserved Instances & Server Subscriptions

You can book Azure Reserved Instances for one year or three years directly with Telekom. You have the option of paying the entire amount in advance or using the monthly payment option.

No, it is not possible to book Azure Reserved Instances with a start date in the future. The billing period begins at the time of booking.

Azure Reserved Instances can also be applied to VM Scale Sets and Azure Batch User Subscriptions Mode.

You can find your Reserved Instances in the Azure Portal. Select the 'Reservations' menu to view all reserved Azure instances associated with your subscription.

30 days before expiry and on the expiry date itself, users will receive an email notification about the expiry of the Reserved Instance. After expiry, provisioned services will continue to run and will be billed at the current pay-as-you-go rate.

The Server Subscriptions offer includes the following licences:

• Windows Server Remote Desktop Services CAL - User
• Windows Server Rights Management Services CAL - Device
• Windows Server Rights Management Services CAL - User
• Windows Server CAL - Device
• Windows Server CAL - User
• Windows Server Standard
• SQL Server Standard - 2 Core License Pack
• SQL Server Enterprise - 2 Core License Pack
• Azure SQL Edge

The server subscriptions each have a term of one year or three years.

No. Booking server subscriptions does not require an existing Azure subscription. However, if the server subscription is to be used in the Azure Cloud, an Azure subscription is required to apply the Hybrid Benefit price advantage.

The Microsoft Terms of Use for Online Services for Volume Licensing and the Product Terms for Volume Licensing in the currently valid versions from Microsoft apply in principle.

An important difference between CSP and volume licensing is that CSP does not include Software Assurance (SA). However, Azure server subscriptions have certain equivalent Software Assurance rights. They also allow the use of new versions released during the subscription period.

Software Assurance benefits that are not available through CSP include, for example:

• Planning services
• Technical training
• Round-the-clock problem-solving support

No, it is not possible to book server subscriptions with a start date in the future. The subscription begins at the time of booking.

The price for a server subscription is payable immediately and as a one-off payment, i.e. the total amount will be invoiced in the respective billing month of the booking.