{"id":10741,"date":"2026-03-18T06:55:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/blog\/?p=10741"},"modified":"2026-11-09T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T16:38:00","slug":"azure-virtual-machine-pricing-cost-factors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/blog\/azure-virtual-machine-pricing-cost-factors\/","title":{"rendered":"Azure Virtual Machine Pricing: Sizes, Costs, and How to Pay Less"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>a {color: #007fac;}<\/style>\n<p>Azure VM pricing rarely reduces to a single number. It is a layered structure shaped by VM family, size, region, storage type, networking and licensing, and each layer moves the total in its own way. That complexity is deliberate: it lets you match compute, storage and performance to a workload instead of buying a fixed package, which is what makes the platform flexible and also what makes the bill hard to predict.<\/p>\n<p>For most organizations, virtual machines become one of the largest lines on the Azure invoice. The cost is not only what you provision. It also reflects how long things run, because VMs are billed per second while they are running, so runtime behavior matters as much as the original configuration.<\/p>\n<p>This guide goes further than a general description. It uses East US list prices taken from Microsoft&#8217;s own price feed to show what real VM sizes cost, how much Windows, region, reservations and Spot change the number, and what a small three-VM environment costs before and after optimization. Every figure assumes 730 hours in a month, the same convention Microsoft&#8217;s calculator uses, and was checked in November 2026.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/azure-vm-pricing-featured.png\" alt=\"Azure VM pricing explained: sizes, costs and how to pay less\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;display:block;\"\/><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"key-takeaways\" style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Key Takeaways<\/h2>\n<div style=\"background:#f0f7ff;border:1px solid #cfe0f4;border-left:6px solid #0078d4;border-radius:8px;padding:20px 26px;margin:18px 0 28px\">\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom:20px\">\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>A VM bill is a stack, not a number.<\/strong> Compute is usually the largest line, followed by disks, licensing, networking and add-on services such as backup and monitoring.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Size scales linearly, region does not.<\/strong> Within the D v5 series the price doubles at each size step, while one D4s v5 costs $0.192 an hour in East US and $0.306 in Brazil South.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Windows can nearly double the compute price.<\/strong> On a D4s v5 the license adds $134.32 a month, and Azure Hybrid Benefit removes it when you hold eligible licenses.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Commitment is the biggest lever.<\/strong> On the same VM, savings plans and reservations lower the compute rate by roughly 31% to 61%, and Spot by about 79% for work that can be interrupted.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Stacking beats single tactics.<\/strong> In our three-VM example, Hybrid Benefit plus 1-year reservations cut the monthly bill by about 49%.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Powered off is not the same as deallocated.<\/strong> Only a deallocated VM stops compute billing, and disks keep billing either way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size:19px\"><strong>In this guide:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom:20px\">\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"><a style=\"color:#007fac\" href=\"#cost-layers\">What you are really paying for<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"><a style=\"color:#007fac\" href=\"#families\">VM families and sizes<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"><a style=\"color:#007fac\" href=\"#prices-by-size\">VM pricing by size: verified list prices<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"><a style=\"color:#007fac\" href=\"#windows-linux\">Windows vs Linux and Hybrid Benefit<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"><a style=\"color:#007fac\" href=\"#pricing-models\">Pay-as-you-go, savings plans, reservations and Spot<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"><a style=\"color:#007fac\" href=\"#regions\">Why region changes the price<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"><a style=\"color:#007fac\" href=\"#disks\">Disk storage costs<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"><a style=\"color:#007fac\" href=\"#gpu\">GPU virtual machine pricing<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"><a style=\"color:#007fac\" href=\"#beyond-vm\">Costs beyond the VM<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"><a style=\"color:#007fac\" href=\"#example\">A worked example: three VMs, four ways to pay<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"><a style=\"color:#007fac\" href=\"#lower-cost\">Ways to lower your Azure VM bill<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"><a style=\"color:#007fac\" href=\"#mistakes\">Common mistakes that inflate the bill<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"><a style=\"color:#007fac\" href=\"#estimate\">How to estimate your own costs<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"><a style=\"color:#007fac\" href=\"#apps4rent\">Keeping Azure VM costs under control<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"><a style=\"color:#007fac\" href=\"#faqs\">Frequently asked questions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"cost-layers\" style=\"font-size: 24px;\">What You Are Really Paying For<\/h2>\n<p>Azure VM pricing is rarely a single line item. It is the sum of several components, and each one responds to different decisions.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom:20px\">\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Compute<\/strong> is the foundation. vCPU and memory drive the largest share of the cost for most VMs.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Storage<\/strong> varies by disk type and performance tier, and it is billed on the provisioned size.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Networking<\/strong> charges come mainly from outbound data transfer and public IP addresses. Data coming into Azure is free, and these charges stay modest until transfer volumes grow.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Licensing<\/strong> adds a significant layer, especially when Windows Server and SQL Server are part of the environment.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Add-on services<\/strong> such as backup, monitoring and disaster recovery sit outside the VM but steadily add to the total.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"margin:28px 0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/azure-vm-bill-anatomy.png\" alt=\"Diagram of what goes into an Azure VM bill: compute, disks, networking, licensing and add-on services such as backup, monitoring and recovery\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;display:block;border:1px solid #e2e8f0;border-radius:8px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:8px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#667788;text-align:center;font-style:italic;\">Compute is usually the biggest line, but disks, licensing and add-on services all move the total.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>One billing detail catches many teams out. A VM shut down from inside its operating system is stopped but still allocated, so compute keeps billing. Only a deallocated VM, stopped through the Azure portal, the command line or an automation, stops the compute meter. Disks, snapshots and reserved IP addresses keep billing either way.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"families\" style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Azure VM Families and Sizes: Matching Workload to Cost<\/h2>\n<p>Azure VM pricing starts to make sense once you see how the families are organized. Each is built for a workload profile, so choosing a family is a cost decision as much as a technical one.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin:28px 0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/azure-vm-families.png\" alt=\"Overview of Azure VM families: general purpose B and D series, compute optimized F series, memory optimized E and M series, storage optimized L series, GPU N series and high performance H series\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;display:block;border:1px solid #e2e8f0;border-radius:8px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:8px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#667788;text-align:center;font-style:italic;\">Each family is built around a workload profile, which is why sizing is a cost decision as much as a technical one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>General-purpose VMs, the B-series and D-series, sit at the center of most deployments. They balance CPU and memory for everyday business applications. The B-series is burstable: it banks credits while idle and spends them during busier moments, which suits dev and test machines and lightly used servers. For a closer look at when to pick which, see our comparison of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/blog\/azure-b-series-vs-d-series\/\">how burstable B-series differs from D-series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Compute-optimized options such as the F-series shift the balance toward processing power for CPU-bound workloads. Memory-optimized families, including the E-series and M-series, suit in-memory databases and analytics. Storage-optimized L-series VMs prioritize disk throughput and low latency for data-heavy work. GPU-powered VMs in the NC, ND and NV series support machine learning, rendering and graphics-heavy desktops, and high-performance compute VMs such as the HB-series handle tightly coupled simulation and modeling.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"prices-by-size\" style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Azure VM Pricing by Size: Verified List Prices<\/h2>\n<p>Here is what a representative set of sizes costs in East US, with Linux and Windows pay-as-you-go rates and the Linux monthly equivalent.<\/p>\n<table class=\"has-fixed-layout\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th><strong>VM size<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>vCPU \/ memory<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>Typical use<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>Linux per hour<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>Windows per hour<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>Linux per month<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>B2s<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>2 vCPU \/ 4 GiB<\/td>\n<td>Dev, test, light web servers<\/td>\n<td>$0.0416<\/td>\n<td>$0.0496<\/td>\n<td>$30.37<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>B2ms<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>2 vCPU \/ 8 GiB<\/td>\n<td>Small apps with bursty load<\/td>\n<td>$0.0832<\/td>\n<td>$0.0912<\/td>\n<td>$60.74<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>B4ms<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>4 vCPU \/ 16 GiB<\/td>\n<td>Light business applications<\/td>\n<td>$0.166<\/td>\n<td>$0.182<\/td>\n<td>$121.18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>D2s v5<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>2 vCPU \/ 8 GiB<\/td>\n<td>General business apps<\/td>\n<td>$0.096<\/td>\n<td>$0.188<\/td>\n<td>$70.08<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>D4s v5<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>4 vCPU \/ 16 GiB<\/td>\n<td>App servers, small databases<\/td>\n<td>$0.192<\/td>\n<td>$0.376<\/td>\n<td>$140.16<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>D8s v5<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>8 vCPU \/ 32 GiB<\/td>\n<td>Busy application servers<\/td>\n<td>$0.384<\/td>\n<td>$0.752<\/td>\n<td>$280.32<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>D4as v5 (AMD)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>4 vCPU \/ 16 GiB<\/td>\n<td>Same shape as D4s, lower rate<\/td>\n<td>$0.172<\/td>\n<td>$0.356<\/td>\n<td>$125.56<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>E4s v5<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>4 vCPU \/ 32 GiB<\/td>\n<td>Databases, in-memory work<\/td>\n<td>$0.252<\/td>\n<td>$0.436<\/td>\n<td>$183.96<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>F4s v2<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>4 vCPU \/ 8 GiB<\/td>\n<td>CPU-heavy workloads<\/td>\n<td>$0.169<\/td>\n<td>$0.354<\/td>\n<td>$123.37<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>L8s v3<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>8 vCPU \/ 64 GiB<\/td>\n<td>Storage-heavy, NoSQL<\/td>\n<td>$0.696<\/td>\n<td>$1.064<\/td>\n<td>$508.08<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"margin:-8px 0 22px;font-size:13px;color:#667788;font-style:italic;\">East US list prices in USD from <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/virtual-machines\/linux\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft&#8217;s published virtual machine rates<\/a>, retrieved November 2026, calculated on 730 hours a month. Your region, agreement or CSP pricing will differ.<\/p>\n<p>A few patterns are worth reading out of the table:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom:20px\">\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Price follows size in a straight line.<\/strong> Within the D v5 series the rate doubles at each step, from $0.096 to $0.192 to $0.384 an hour, so halving an oversized VM halves its compute bill. Over-provisioning is a silent cost because unused capacity bills exactly like used capacity.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>AMD variants are cheaper for the same shape.<\/strong> The D4as v5 lists about 10% below the D4s v5 with the same 4 vCPU and 16 GiB. Performance is usually comparable for general workloads, but test yours.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Memory costs extra.<\/strong> The E4s v5 doubles the memory of a D4s v5 for about 31% more.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Compute-optimized trades memory for price.<\/strong> The F4s v2 comes in about 12% below the D4s v5 because it carries half the memory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"windows-linux\" style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Windows vs Linux and Azure Hybrid Benefit<\/h2>\n<p>Licensing plays a large role in Azure VM pricing, and Windows is where it shows up most. The Windows license is built into the hourly rate, and it scales with the number of vCPUs.<\/p>\n<table class=\"has-fixed-layout\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th><strong>VM size<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>Linux per hour<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>Windows per hour<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>License adds per hour<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>License adds per month<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>B2s<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>$0.0416<\/td>\n<td>$0.0496<\/td>\n<td>$0.008<\/td>\n<td>$5.84<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>D2s v5<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>$0.096<\/td>\n<td>$0.188<\/td>\n<td>$0.092<\/td>\n<td>$67.16<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>D4s v5<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>$0.192<\/td>\n<td>$0.376<\/td>\n<td>$0.184<\/td>\n<td>$134.32<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>D8s v5<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>$0.384<\/td>\n<td>$0.752<\/td>\n<td>$0.368<\/td>\n<td>$268.64<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"margin:-8px 0 22px;font-size:13px;color:#667788;font-style:italic;\">East US list prices in USD, retrieved November 2026 and calculated on 730 hours a month. Your region, agreement or CSP pricing will differ.<\/p>\n<p>On D-series v5 sizes, the Windows license adds $0.046 per vCPU per hour, which is $134.32 a month on a D4s v5 and takes it from $140.16 to $274.48. On the burstable B-series the uplift is only $0.004 per vCPU per hour, so Windows matters far less on small, lightly used machines. Linux-based environments remain the leaner option wherever the workload allows.<\/p>\n<p>Azure Hybrid Benefit changes the math for Windows. If you already own Windows Server licenses with Software Assurance, or hold qualifying subscriptions, you can bring them to Azure and pay the base compute rate instead. On the D4s v5 that removes $134.32 a month, about 49% of the Windows price. The same idea applies to SQL Server. Our guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/blog\/azure-hybrid-benefit\/\">how Hybrid Benefit eligibility works<\/a> covers who qualifies and how to apply it.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"pricing-models\" style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Pay-as-You-Go, Savings Plans, Reservations and Spot<\/h2>\n<p>Azure sells the same VM several ways. Each balances flexibility, predictability and long-term savings differently, and the choice usually moves the bill more than any other single decision.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin:28px 0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/azure-vm-pricing-models.png\" alt=\"Comparison of four ways to pay for the same Azure VM: pay-as-you-go, savings plan, reservation and Spot, with the commitment and trade-off of each\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;display:block;border:1px solid #e2e8f0;border-radius:8px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:8px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#667788;text-align:center;font-style:italic;\">The same VM can be bought four ways. The right one depends on how predictable the workload is.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom:20px\">\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Pay-as-you-go<\/strong> keeps costs tied directly to usage. It is the most flexible and the most expensive way to run anything that stays on continuously.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Savings plans<\/strong> commit you to an hourly spend for one or three years and apply across VM families, sizes and regions, which suits environments that change shape.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Reservations<\/strong> commit you to a specific size and region for one or three years and give a deeper discount for stable, always-on servers.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Spot VMs<\/strong> use spare capacity at the deepest discounts, with the risk that Azure evicts them at short notice when it needs the capacity back.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Dev\/Test pricing<\/strong> removes the Windows license charge for VMs in eligible non-production subscriptions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is how those options price the same VM, a D4s v5 running Linux in East US:<\/p>\n<table class=\"has-fixed-layout\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th><strong>Pricing model (D4s v5, Linux, East US)<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>Commitment<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>Per month<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>Versus pay-as-you-go<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Pay-as-you-go<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>None<\/td>\n<td>$140.16<\/td>\n<td>Baseline<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Savings plan, 1 year<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Hourly spend<\/td>\n<td>$96.12<\/td>\n<td>31% lower<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Savings plan, 3 years<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Hourly spend<\/td>\n<td>$64.50<\/td>\n<td>54% lower<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Reservation, 1 year<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>This size and region<\/td>\n<td>$86.50<\/td>\n<td>38% lower<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Reservation, 3 years<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>This size and region<\/td>\n<td>$55.36<\/td>\n<td>61% lower<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Spot<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>None, can be evicted<\/td>\n<td>$29.59<\/td>\n<td>79% lower, variable<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"margin:-8px 0 22px;font-size:13px;color:#667788;font-style:italic;\">East US list prices in USD, retrieved November 2026 and calculated on 730 hours a month. Your region, agreement or CSP pricing will differ.<\/p>\n<p>Reservation and savings plan prices cover compute only. A Windows VM still carries its license charge unless Hybrid Benefit applies, which is why the two are usually combined. Match the model to the workload: reservations for servers that will run for years, a savings plan when sizes and regions will change, Spot for jobs that can restart, and pay-as-you-go for everything short-lived or uncertain. Never reserve capacity you might switch off in three months.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"regions\" style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Why Region Changes the Price<\/h2>\n<p>Azure VM cost shifts across regions, sometimes by a lot. Pricing reflects local infrastructure, energy and operating costs, as well as demand and datacenter availability. Here is the same D4s v5 across eight regions.<\/p>\n<table class=\"has-fixed-layout\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th><strong>Region (D4s v5, Linux)<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>Per hour<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>Per month<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>Versus East US<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>East US<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>$0.192<\/td>\n<td>$140.16<\/td>\n<td>Baseline<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Central US<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>$0.217<\/td>\n<td>$158.41<\/td>\n<td>13% higher<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>North Europe<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>$0.214<\/td>\n<td>$156.22<\/td>\n<td>11% higher<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>UK South<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>$0.222<\/td>\n<td>$162.06<\/td>\n<td>16% higher<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>West Europe<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>$0.23<\/td>\n<td>$167.90<\/td>\n<td>20% higher<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Australia East<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>$0.24<\/td>\n<td>$175.20<\/td>\n<td>25% higher<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Japan East<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>$0.248<\/td>\n<td>$181.04<\/td>\n<td>29% higher<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Brazil South<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>$0.306<\/td>\n<td>$223.38<\/td>\n<td>59% higher<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"margin:-8px 0 22px;font-size:13px;color:#667788;font-style:italic;\">East US list prices in USD, retrieved November 2026 and calculated on 730 hours a month. Your region, agreement or CSP pricing will differ.<\/p>\n<p>East US 2 and West US 2 match East US at $0.192. Brazil South lists about 59% higher. Region selection also shapes latency, compliance alignment and reliability, so choose on those first and let cost break the tie. Non-production environments are the natural place to take advantage of a cheaper region.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"disks\" style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Disk Storage Costs<\/h2>\n<p>Storage has its own pricing curve, shaped by performance tier and provisioning. Standard HDD, Standard SSD and Premium SSD cover most needs, with Ultra Disk for the most demanding I\/O. Premium tiers give production workloads consistent speed, while lower tiers serve less demanding use. Here are East US prices for locally redundant managed disks:<\/p>\n<table class=\"has-fixed-layout\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th><strong>Provisioned size<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>Standard HDD<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>Standard SSD<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>Premium SSD<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>128 GiB<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>$5.89<\/td>\n<td>$9.60<\/td>\n<td>$19.71<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>512 GiB<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>$21.76<\/td>\n<td>$38.40<\/td>\n<td>$73.22<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>1 TiB<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>$40.96<\/td>\n<td>$76.80<\/td>\n<td>$135.17<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"margin:-8px 0 22px;font-size:13px;color:#667788;font-style:italic;\">East US list prices in USD, retrieved November 2026 and calculated on 730 hours a month. Your region, agreement or CSP pricing will differ.<\/p>\n<p>Costs follow the provisioned size tier, not the space you use, so an oversized disk bills in full even when it is mostly empty. A 128 GiB Premium SSD lists at about 3 times the price of the same size in Standard HDD, so reserve Premium for workloads that need the performance. Snapshots extend the footprint further, accumulating charges as stored data grows, which makes a regular clean-up worthwhile.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"gpu\" style=\"font-size: 24px;\">GPU Virtual Machine Pricing<\/h2>\n<p>GPU-enabled VMs occupy the top of the price range because of their specialized hardware. They support machine learning, rendering, high-end visualization and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/azure-virtual-desktop\/\">GPU-backed virtual desktops<\/a>, where graphical performance shapes the user experience. Different series fit different use cases, so match the GPU to the job rather than buying the biggest one.<\/p>\n<table class=\"has-fixed-layout\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th><strong>GPU VM<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>Per hour<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>Pay-as-you-go per month<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>3-year reservation per month<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>Spot per month<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>NC4as T4 v3 (4 vCPU \/ 28 GiB, 1 NVIDIA T4)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>$0.526<\/td>\n<td>$383.98<\/td>\n<td>$144.39<\/td>\n<td>$119.76<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>NC24ads A100 v4 (24 vCPU \/ 220 GiB, 1 NVIDIA A100 80 GB)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>$3.673<\/td>\n<td>$2,681.29<\/td>\n<td>$995.03<\/td>\n<td>$495.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"margin:-8px 0 22px;font-size:13px;color:#667788;font-style:italic;\">East US list prices in USD, retrieved November 2026 and calculated on 730 hours a month. Your region, agreement or CSP pricing will differ.<\/p>\n<p>A single A100 VM runs to roughly $2,681.29 a month pay-as-you-go, which is why commitment and Spot matter so much here. A 3-year reservation brings it to about $995.03, and Spot to about $495.50 for work that tolerates interruption, such as training runs that checkpoint. GPU VM families also often need a quota increase before you can deploy them, so request it early.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"beyond-vm\" style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Costs Beyond the VM<\/h2>\n<p>The VM and its disks are only part of the bill. Backup, monitoring and disaster recovery each add their own meters, and they grow steadily with the environment. Backup is a good example: it carries a per-instance fee plus storage that grows with retention, which we break down in our guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/blog\/azure-backup-pricing-explained\/\">how Azure Backup fees and storage add up<\/a>. Monitoring bills on the volume of data you ingest, outbound data transfer is charged beyond a small free allowance, and public IP addresses bill by the hour.<\/p>\n<p>There is also the cost of the people and process around the platform. When a provider runs the environment, you pay for Azure resources and for the operators, a split we cover in our breakdown of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/blog\/azure-managed-services-cost\/\">what you pay beyond the Azure bill when a provider runs it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"example\" style=\"font-size: 24px;\">A Worked Example: Three VMs, Four Ways to Pay<\/h2>\n<p>To see how the levers combine, take a small business environment that runs around the clock: two Windows Server application VMs (D4s v5) and one Linux utility VM (D2s v5). Each has a 128 GiB Premium SSD OS disk, and each Windows VM adds a 512 GiB Premium SSD data disk. The disks come to $205.57 a month in every scenario.<\/p>\n<table class=\"has-fixed-layout\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th><strong>Scenario<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>Compute per month<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>Disks per month<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>Total per month<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>Versus pay-as-you-go<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Pay-as-you-go, Windows licenses billed<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>$619.04<\/td>\n<td>$205.57<\/td>\n<td>$824.61<\/td>\n<td>Baseline<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Azure Hybrid Benefit only<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>$350.40<\/td>\n<td>$205.57<\/td>\n<td>$555.97<\/td>\n<td>33% lower<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Hybrid Benefit plus 1-year reservations<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>$216.25<\/td>\n<td>$205.57<\/td>\n<td>$421.82<\/td>\n<td>49% lower<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Hybrid Benefit plus 3-year reservations<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>$138.42<\/td>\n<td>$205.57<\/td>\n<td>$343.99<\/td>\n<td>58% lower<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"margin:-8px 0 22px;font-size:13px;color:#667788;font-style:italic;\">East US list prices in USD, retrieved November 2026 and calculated on 730 hours a month. Your region, agreement or CSP pricing will differ.<\/p>\n<p>The compute line falls from $619.04 to $216.25 with Hybrid Benefit and 1-year reservations, a drop of 65%, and the total bill falls by about 49%. A 3-year commitment goes further, to $138.42 a month in compute, but locks you in for longer and should only cover servers you are confident will still be running. Neither lever alone gets there. Hybrid Benefit removes the Windows license charge, and the reservation lowers the base rate underneath it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin:2rem 0;background:#ffffff;border:1px solid #e2e8f0;border-radius:10px;overflow:hidden;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',sans-serif;box-shadow:0 1px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.06);\">\n<div style=\"padding:6px 20px;background:#0078d4;\">\n<p style=\"margin:0;font-weight:600;color:#ffffff;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.07em;\">MICROSOFT SOLUTIONS PARTNER | TIER-1 CSP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding:1.5rem 2rem;\">\n<h3 style=\"margin:0 0 12px;font-size:19px;font-weight:700;color:#0a2540;line-height:1.3;\">Get Your Azure VM Costs Reviewed<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 18px;font-size:14px;color:#3a4a5c;line-height:1.7;\">Apps4Rent right-sizes your virtual machines, applies Hybrid Benefit and commitments where they fit, and monitors spend every day, so your Azure bill follows the work you actually run.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:8px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><span style=\"display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:6px;padding:5px 12px;background:#f0f7ff;border-radius:20px;font-size:12px;font-weight:500;color:#0a2540;\"><span style=\"width:6px;height:6px;background:#0078d4;border-radius:50%;display:inline-block;\"><\/span>Right-Sizing<\/span><span style=\"display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:6px;padding:5px 12px;background:#f0f7ff;border-radius:20px;font-size:12px;font-weight:500;color:#0a2540;\"><span style=\"width:6px;height:6px;background:#0078d4;border-radius:50%;display:inline-block;\"><\/span>Commitment Planning<\/span><span style=\"display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:6px;padding:5px 12px;background:#f0f7ff;border-radius:20px;font-size:12px;font-weight:500;color:#0a2540;\"><span style=\"width:6px;height:6px;background:#0078d4;border-radius:50%;display:inline-block;\"><\/span>24\/7 Support<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin:0 0 18px;padding-top:14px;border-top:1px solid #eef2f6;\">\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-size:11px;font-weight:700;color:#667788;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.06em;\">Microsoft Solutions Partner Designations<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:6px;\"><span style=\"display:inline-block;padding:3px 9px;border:1px solid #cfe0f2;border-radius:4px;font-size:11.5px;font-weight:600;color:#0a2540;background:#ffffff;\">Infrastructure (Azure)<\/span><span style=\"display:inline-block;padding:3px 9px;border:1px solid #cfe0f2;border-radius:4px;font-size:11.5px;font-weight:600;color:#0a2540;background:#ffffff;\">Data &amp; AI (Azure)<\/span><span style=\"display:inline-block;padding:3px 9px;border:1px solid #cfe0f2;border-radius:4px;font-size:11.5px;font-weight:600;color:#0a2540;background:#ffffff;\">Digital &amp; App Innovation (Azure)<\/span><span style=\"display:inline-block;padding:3px 9px;border:1px solid #cfe0f2;border-radius:4px;font-size:11.5px;font-weight:600;color:#0a2540;background:#ffffff;\">Modern Work<\/span><span style=\"display:inline-block;padding:3px 9px;border:1px solid #cfe0f2;border-radius:4px;font-size:11.5px;font-weight:600;color:#0a2540;background:#ffffff;\">Security<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:12px;align-items:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/managed-azure\/\" style=\"display:inline-block;padding:11px 24px;background:#0078d4;color:#ffffff;font-size:14px;font-weight:600;text-decoration:none;border-radius:6px;\">Talk to an Azure Specialist<\/a><a href=\"tel:18667162040\" style=\"display:inline-block;padding:11px 24px;border:1.5px solid #0078d4;color:#0078d4;font-size:14px;font-weight:600;text-decoration:none;border-radius:6px;\">Call 1-866-716-2040<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"lower-cost\" style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Ways to Lower Your Azure VM Bill<\/h2>\n<p>Azure VM cost does not stay fixed once resources are deployed. It moves with usage patterns, configuration choices and ongoing management. Our broader guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/blog\/azure-cost-optimization\/\">keeping the Azure bill in check<\/a> covers the whole platform. For virtual machines specifically, these levers do the most:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom:20px\">\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Right-size continuously.<\/strong> Match each VM to real demand, since cost follows size in a straight line and idle capacity bills like busy capacity.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Combine Hybrid Benefit with commitments.<\/strong> As the worked example shows, the two together do far more than either alone.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Use Spot for interruptible work.<\/strong> Build agents, batch jobs and rendering can restart, so they can take the deepest discount.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Monitor and resize periodically.<\/strong> Workloads change, and a size that fit last year may be too large today.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Scale automatically.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/blog\/azure-auto-scale-resources\/\">Autoscaling Azure resources<\/a> adds capacity for peaks and removes it afterward, so you stop paying for headroom you rarely use.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Deallocate on a schedule.<\/strong> Shutting down and deallocating non-production machines overnight and on weekends cuts runtime charges directly. A D4s v5 that runs 10 hours on weekdays only, about 217 hours a month, lists at $41.66 instead of $140.16, roughly 70% less.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Use Dev\/Test pricing.<\/strong> Eligible non-production subscriptions skip the Windows license charge.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Clean up leftovers.<\/strong> Unattached disks, old snapshots and idle public IPs keep billing after the VM is gone.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Set budgets and alerts.<\/strong> A budget alert catches a runaway resource in days, not at the end of the month.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Use the free account for evaluation.<\/strong> Azure&#8217;s free account includes a limited allowance of small VM hours for the first 12 months, which helps limit early exposure. Check the current terms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"mistakes\" style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Common Mistakes That Inflate the Bill<\/h2>\n<p>Most overspending on Azure VMs traces back to a short list of avoidable habits. Check your own environment against these before you buy anything:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom:20px\">\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Treating shut down as deallocated.<\/strong> A VM stopped from inside the guest operating system keeps billing for compute.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Buying Premium SSD for every disk.<\/strong> Premium is the right call for production databases and busy servers, and an expensive default for everything else.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Reserving machines that will change.<\/strong> A reservation pays off only if the server is still there at the end of the term, so reserve the stable core and leave the rest flexible.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Ignoring the Windows license when comparing options.<\/strong> A Windows VM and a Linux VM of the same size are not the same price, and Hybrid Benefit eligibility is easy to overlook.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Sizing for the peak all month.<\/strong> If load spikes for a few hours a day, schedules or autoscaling beat paying for the peak around the clock.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Leaving orphans behind.<\/strong> Deleted VMs often leave disks, snapshots and public IP addresses billing quietly.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Choosing a region on price alone.<\/strong> A cheaper region can add latency, break a compliance requirement or add cross-region data transfer.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Estimating compute and forgetting the rest.<\/strong> Backup, monitoring, data transfer and licensing all sit outside the VM rate.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><strong>Letting commitments lapse unreviewed.<\/strong> A reservation that expires quietly returns the VM to pay-as-you-go pricing, so diarize renewals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"estimate\" style=\"font-size: 24px;\">How to Estimate Your Own Azure VM Costs<\/h2>\n<p>A reliable estimate needs five inputs: the VM size and count, the operating system, the region, how many hours a month each machine runs, and the pricing model. Add the disks and any add-on services, and use the rates in this guide as a starting point. Monthly compute is the hourly rate multiplied by 730 for a machine that runs all the time, and by fewer hours for one that does not.<\/p>\n<p>If you would rather not assemble it by hand, our free <a href=\"https:\/\/azurecalculator.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AI Azure calculator<\/a> designs a setup from a plain-English description and prices it across regions and commitment terms. For a full walk-through of what it produces, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/blog\/azure-vm-pricing-ai-calculator\/\">see an example estimate built from a plain description<\/a>. Microsoft also publishes every list price through its public Retail Prices API, which is where the figures in this guide came from. Whichever route you take, compare your estimate with the first full invoice, since real usage rarely matches the plan exactly.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"apps4rent\" style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Keeping Azure VM Costs Under Control with Apps4Rent<\/h2>\n<p>Azure VM pricing becomes manageable once its moving parts are understood as a connected system rather than isolated line items. Compute, storage, networking, licensing and usage patterns work together, and small configuration decisions compound over time.<\/p>\n<p>Apps4Rent is a Microsoft Solutions Partner and Tier-1 Cloud Solution Provider, SOC 2 Type II certified, serving over 10,000 businesses since 2003. Our team handles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/managed-azure\/\">running the environment and keeping the bill honest<\/a>: right-sizing, monitoring, cost optimization, performance tuning, backup and security, with Microsoft-certified engineers available by phone, chat and email around the clock. If you are still deciding what to build, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/azure-consulting-services\/\">independent architecture review<\/a> can set the sizes, region and commitment model before you deploy anything.<\/p>\n<div style=\"border:2px solid #1565c0;border-radius:6px;padding:22px 26px;margin:32px 0;background:#f0f7ff;\">\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:bold;font-size:18px;color:#0d1f35;\">Not Sure What Your VMs Should Cost?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 12px;font-size:15px;color:#333;\">Most Azure VM bills carry oversized machines, Windows licenses that Hybrid Benefit could cover, and steady servers still paying the pay-as-you-go rate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 18px;font-size:15px;color:#333;\">Send us what you run today. An Apps4Rent Azure specialist will show you where the bill is carrying more than the workload needs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;\"><a href=\"#form\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#1565c0;color:#fff;text-decoration:none;padding:11px 22px;border-radius:4px;font-size:15px;font-weight:bold;\">Request a Cost Review &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"faqs\" style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<ol style=\"margin-bottom:20px\">\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\">\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 21px;\">How much does an Azure virtual machine cost per month?<\/h3>\n<p>It depends on size, region, operating system and commitment. At East US list prices, a 2 vCPU B2s Linux VM costs about $30.37 a month pay-as-you-go, a 4 vCPU D4s v5 about $140.16, and a 24 vCPU A100 GPU VM about $2,681.29, all before disks, networking and licenses. These figures assume 730 hours in a month.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\">\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 21px;\">How are Azure virtual machines billed, and do I pay for a stopped VM?<\/h3>\n<p>Compute is billed per second for most VM sizes while the VM is allocated. A VM shut down from inside its operating system is stopped but still allocated, so compute keeps billing. A deallocated VM stops compute charges, but its disks, snapshots and reserved IP addresses continue to bill.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\">\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 21px;\">How much more does a Windows VM cost than a Linux VM?<\/h3>\n<p>At East US list prices the Windows license adds $0.046 per vCPU per hour on D-series v5 sizes, which is $134.32 a month on a D4s v5 (about 49% of its Windows price). On the B-series sizes shown the uplift is only $0.004 per vCPU per hour. With Azure Hybrid Benefit and eligible licenses, a Windows Server VM pays the base compute rate.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\">\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 21px;\">What is the difference between a savings plan and a reservation?<\/h3>\n<p>A savings plan commits you to a fixed hourly spend for one or three years and applies across VM families, sizes and regions. A reservation commits you to a specific VM size and region for one or three years and gives a deeper discount for steady workloads. For a D4s v5 in East US, list prices work out to about 31% off for a 1-year savings plan, 38% for a 1-year reservation and 61% for a 3-year reservation.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\">\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 21px;\">Are Azure Spot VMs worth using?<\/h3>\n<p>For the right workloads, yes. A D4s v5 Spot VM lists about 79% below pay-as-you-go in East US. The catch is that Azure can evict Spot VMs at short notice when it needs the capacity back, so Spot suits batch jobs, build agents, rendering and dev or test work, not databases or user-facing servers.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\">\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 21px;\">Why does the same Azure VM cost more in some regions?<\/h3>\n<p>Regional prices reflect local infrastructure, energy and operating costs. A D4s v5 lists at $0.192 an hour in East US and $0.306 in Brazil South, about 59% more. Choose a region for latency, data residency and compliance first, and use cost as the tiebreaker, for example by placing non-production workloads in a cheaper region.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\">\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 21px;\">How much do Azure managed disks cost?<\/h3>\n<p>At East US list prices, a 128 GiB locally redundant disk costs $5.89 a month as Standard HDD, $9.60 as Standard SSD and $19.71 as Premium SSD. Disks are billed on the provisioned size tier, not the space you actually use, so oversized disks cost money even when they are mostly empty.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\">\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 21px;\">How much does an Azure GPU virtual machine cost?<\/h3>\n<p>At East US list prices, an NC4as T4 v3 with one NVIDIA T4 costs about $383.98 a month pay-as-you-go and an NC24ads A100 v4 with one A100 about $2,681.29. Spot pricing brings those to roughly $119.76 and $495.50 for interruptible work. GPU VM families often need a quota increase before you can deploy them.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\">\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 21px;\">What is the cheapest way to run an Azure VM?<\/h3>\n<p>Right-size first, use Linux where the workload allows, apply Azure Hybrid Benefit to Windows and SQL Server licenses you already own, and cover always-on servers with a reservation or savings plan. Use Spot for interruptible work, Dev\/Test pricing for non-production, and shut down or deallocate machines that sit idle. In our three-VM example, Hybrid Benefit plus 1-year reservations cut the monthly bill by about 49%.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\">\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 21px;\">Can Apps4Rent help manage Azure VM costs?<\/h3>\n<p>Yes. Apps4Rent is a Microsoft Solutions Partner and Tier-1 Cloud Solution Provider. 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