Updated: December 26, 2023 (December 26, 2023)

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Dedicated Hosting in Azure

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Dedicated hosting, unlike multitenant hosting such as that used by Azure VMs, allows customers to control all resources on the entire physical server. This control provides physical isolation from other customers and is like the type of control available in on-premises datacenters. Two Azure offerings allow customers to rent dedicated hardware housed in Azure datacenters for their VM workloads, typically chosen based on the organization’s use of comparable on-premises technologies. Windows Server and SQL Server workloads hosted on both offerings are eligible for Azure Hybrid Benefit for those products and include Extended Security Updates (ESUs) for eligible versions of SQL Server and Windows Server at no additional cost.

Azure Dedicated Host

Azure Dedicated Host enables customers to rent Azure VM host servers that are dedicated to their Azure subscriptions. Dedicated Host offers several host types that vary by host processor vendor and specification, number of virtual CPUs (vCPUs) available for use within VMs, and physical memory available for use by VMs. Each dedicated host supports a single Azure VM series, although different sizes within that series can be deployed up to the total vCPU and memory available for VMs, with some vCPUs and memory set aside for host management. The service provides measures for reducing the impact of scheduled downtime and uses hourly pricing based on how long the host hardware is provisioned rather than the number of VMs that are deployed and running. 

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