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Azure Hybrid Benefit

Layer 5: Azure Hybrid Benefit. A customer with on-prem Windows or SQL Server licenses can bring them to Azure and avoid paying for the license portion of the VM cost. Typical savings: 30–40% on eligible SKUs. AWS has a similar but smaller program for Windows.

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T0 / M0.4 / L2 Billing cost, and why it's lower than rack rate T0 / M0.5 / L3 Azure cost surface: reservations, hybrid benefit, deallocate-vs-stop

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