Microsoft E8s v4 US DoD Central 1-Year VM Reservation

Apply reserved-capacity pricing to eligible Azure E8s v4 virtual machine usage deployed in the US DoD Central region. Microsoft DZH318Z0CSHL-04NZ represents a one-year Azure virtual machine reservation with monthly billing. It aligns to the E8s v4 size in the Esv4 family, a memory-optimized configuration with 8 vCPUs and 64 GiB of memory. The reservation is intended for workloads with sustained compute requirements that already run, or are planned to run, on the matching E8s v4 configuration. Eligible usage must align with the reserved VM size and the US DoD Central location. The reservation changes the pricing treatment for qualifying compute consumption; it does not deploy a virtual machine, operating system, application, or storage resource by itself. Esv4-series capacity fits workloads where memory per vCPU is a primary sizing consideration, including application servers, in-memory services, data processing nodes, and virtualized business workloads. The E8s v4 size provides a defined 8-vCPU and 64 GiB resource profile, while the one-year term and monthly payment structure distinguish this reservation from shorter commitments and upfront-payment options. Select it when the required VM family, size, region, and commitment period are already established.