Options exist for organizations to reduce cost on Azure VMs that run extended workloads

Azure Reserved VM Instances offers discounts over pay-as-you-go use of Azure VMs, but it requires a degree of monetary commitment for one- or three-year terms

Changes to the Online Services Terms address compliance with the European Union General Data Protection Regulations.

This webinar discusses the online services compliance issues no one is talking about, how Microsoft might deal with them in the future, and what organizations can do today to help protect themselves.

Developers, testers, and IT staff with Visual Studio and MSDN Platforms subscriptions may be able to reduce the cost of certain Azure services and apply their monthly Azure services credits.

Azure, Microsoft's hosted application and storage services offering, provides discounts and financial credits on select services when used exclusively for development and test purposes

To differentiate Azure hosted services from competitors, Azure IP Advantage offers patent indemnification for Azure-branded services

How an organization purchases Azure affects their upfront costs, long-term obligations, and ability to manage the resulting infrastructure

The right to reassign on-premises server application licenses to a service provider's multitenant servers, called License Mobility through Software Assurance, is an important option for licensing Microsoft-based systems in the cloud.