Production Use of Microsoft Server Applications in Azure Virtual Machines

Microsoft offers product support for most of its server applications in production Azure Virtual Machines (Azure VMs), but applications may vary in how they can be licensed. This chart lists all of the Microsoft server products that Microsoft supports in Azure VMs running Windows Server 2008 or newer.

Depending on the application, customers may have up to two ways to pay for a product used within Azure VMs for production.

Pay-as-you-go. BizTalk and SQL Server are available in a pay-as-you-go model priced according to the number of virtual cores used for the instance. Windows Server requires the pay-as-you-go model when used in an Azure VM, unless the organization has taken advantage of the Azure Hybrid Use Benefit for Windows Server with Software Assurance (SA). The costs for server applications in Windows Server VMs in the pay-as-you-go-model are based on the VM compute and memory capacity (on an hourly basis) and the product editions used, and are in addition to any charges for BizTalk Server or SQL Server.