Microsoft E8-2as_v4 Azure Reserved Virtual Machine

Apply reserved-instance coverage to Microsoft Azure E8-2as_v4 virtual-machine usage in the US North Central region. DZH318Z0CM2D-01BT corresponds to the Eav4-series configuration identified as E8-2as_v4, a memory-optimized Azure VM option with 2 vCPUs and 64 GiB of memory. It addresses workloads whose memory requirement is materially larger than their CPU requirement, including database services, in-memory application components, caching tiers, and test environments that mirror memory-heavy production profiles. E8-2as_v4 belongs to Azure’s Eav4 virtual-machine series, which uses AMD-based compute. Its constrained-vCPU configuration retains the memory allocation associated with the E8 size while exposing 2 vCPUs. That balance matters where software licensing, workload concurrency, or CPU utilization does not justify a higher vCPU count but the application still requires 64 GiB of available memory. This reservation is region-specific to US North Central and applies to the named E8-2as_v4 VM configuration. Match it to workloads already sized for that Azure VM designation and deployed within that region. The reservation does not change the operating system, application stack, storage selection, network configuration, or availability architecture of the virtual machine; those remain choices within the Azure deployment.