Microsoft E20ds v4 Azure Government VM Reservation

Apply Microsoft Azure Government reservation coverage to eligible E20ds v4 virtual-machine usage in the US DoD East region. DZH318Z0CSHK-04QX carries a three-year commitment with monthly billing, matching organizations that hold a stable compute requirement through a long-lived service window. It addresses the E20ds v4 configuration rather than an open-ended pool of unrelated VM sizes. The reservation is scoped to compute consumption, not a general Azure credit. The E20ds v4 memory-optimized size supplies 20 vCPUs and 160 GiB memory. Its ds designation identifies local temporary storage and Premium SSD-capable data disks, making the size relevant to memory-heavy application servers, data services, and virtualized workloads that need persistent disks alongside compute. The reservation applies when deployed usage matches the designated size and regional scope. It is therefore materially different from a storage or networking subscription. Use this option when Azure Government workload placement is intentionally fixed in US DoD East and the selected compute profile is E20ds v4. The three-year monthly-payment structure differs from a shorter commitment or an up-front payment schedule while retaining the named VM target. A reservation is a commercial coverage entitlement; it does not itself deploy, configure, or operate a virtual machine.