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Getting the most bang for your buck
Hi Paul,
I don't have any experience with savings plans, although we've gone down the route of reservations for some of our AVD. The reservation is discounting cost on 730 hours per month for the purchased SKU/family, so it'd be a case of looking at the total running hours across all the machines and buying a suitable number of reservations (if there's a desire to commit for that extended period).
In our case, we saw additional value from moving to AMD-based VM SKUs, as they're approx 10% cheaper than their Intel counterparts and the Azure compute benchmark scores are higher. Win - win!
Hope that helps,
Matt
Hi Paul,
I don't have any experience with savings plans, although we've gone down the route of reservations for some of our AVD. The reservation is discounting cost on 730 hours per month for the purchased SKU/family, so it'd be a case of looking at the total running hours across all the machines and buying a suitable number of reservations (if there's a desire to commit for that extended period).
In our case, we saw additional value from moving to AMD-based VM SKUs, as they're approx 10% cheaper than their Intel counterparts and the Azure compute benchmark scores are higher. Win - win!
Hope that helps,
Matt
