Retirement: Azure Reserved Virtual Machines Instances for select VM series
Microsoft retired this Virtual Machines feature on 1 July 2026.
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Facts
- Microsoft id
560948- Products
- Virtual Machines
- Update type
- Pricing & Offerings, Retirements
- Product categories
- Compute
- Retirement
- 1 July 2026
- Status pages
- Azure Virtual Machines status
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- Source
- Azure Updates · open the original at Microsoft
Microsoft says
Starting July 1, 2026, purchases and renewals will no longer be available for one-year Azure Reserved VM Instances for the Av2,
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