About Reservations for VPC
IBM Cloud® Reservations are a great option when you want significant cost savings and dedicated resources for future deployments. You can choose a 1 or 3-year term, server quantity, specific profile, and provision those servers when needed.
Reservations offer many advantages, including the following benefits:
| Benefit | Description |
|---|---|
| Cost savings | Save up to 60% by choosing a 1 or 3-year term compared to on-demand virtual server billing cycles. |
| Save up to 55% by choosing a 1 or 3-year term compared to on-demand bare metal server billing cycles. | |
| Dedicated capacity | Your servers are there when you need them. IBM Cloud® Reservations provide dedicated capacity within the zone of your choice for the life of your committed term. |
| Predictable management | Accurately plan for the future and define your budgeting roadmap with reserved capacity for 1-year or 3-year terms. Your reserved pricing is a fixed discount rate that is applied to the corresponding virtual server profile on-demand rates that are listed in the IBM Cloud® portal. |
| Flexibility in deployment | Convert any existing on-demand virtual server to IBM Cloud® Reservation billing. Attach or detach any compatible virtual server to your reservation. |
A reservation cannot be used for a container service discount such as IBM Kubernetes Service or ROKS.
Supported virtual server profiles
The following x86 profiles for virtual servers are available when you provision a reservation in all available MZRs.
- bx2 profiles
- bx2d profiles
- cx2 profiles
- cx2d profiles
- mx2 profiles
- mx2d profiles
- ux2d profiles
- vx2d profiles
The following virtual server profiles are available in specific MZRs.
- bx2a profiles are available in Toronto only.
- bx3d, cx3d, and mx3d profiles are available in Dallas, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Osaka, Sydney, Toronto, and Washington DC.
- gx2 profiles are available in all regions except Madrid.
- gx3d profiles are available in Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Sao Paulo, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto, and Washington DC.
- ox2 profiles are available in Dallas, Frankfurt, London, Osaka, Tokyo, and Washington DC.
For more information about profiles, see x86-64 instance profiles.
Supported bare metal server profiles (beta)
Reserved bare metal servers are a beta feature that is available for evaluation and testing purposes.
All Gen 2 and Gen 3 bare metal server profiles are available when you provision a reservation in an available MZR.
Bandwidth speed billing for a reservation
Bandwidth speed billing occurs when a server is attached to the reservation. This means that billing for premium operating systems and dynamic network bandwidth occurs at the start event for a server that is attached to a reservation. Dynamic network bandwidth is discounted at the same 1 or 3-year rates as the reservation term, but bills only while a server is attached to the reservation.
Notifications
When your reservation is complete, a confirmation message is sent.
You receive a notification before the end of the term of your reservation. From here, you can decide whether to renew your reservation or cancel.
If Auto-renew is selected when you provision a reservation, your reservation automatically renews when it expires.
Next steps
After you review and decided on your options, you're ready to provision a reservation. For more information, Provisioning a reservation for VPC.