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{{site.data.keyword.cloud}} Reservations are a great option when you want significant cost savings and guaranteed resources for future deployments. You can choose a 1 or 3-year term, server quantity, specific profile, and provision those servers when needed. {: shortdesc}
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. | |
| Guaranteed capacity | Your servers are there when you need them. {{site.data.keyword.cloud}} Reservations are guaranteed 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 {{site.data.keyword.cloud}} portal. |
| Flexibility in deployment | Convert any existing on-demand virtual server to {{site.data.keyword.cloud}} Reservation billing. Attach or detach any compatible virtual server to your reservation. |
| {: caption="Table 1. Benefits of IBM Cloud Reservations" caption-side="top"} |
A reservation cannot be used for a container service discount such as IBM Kubernetes Service or ROKS. {: note}
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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.
- ox2 profiles are available in Dallas, Frankfurt, London, Osaka, Tokyo, and Washington DC.
For more information about profiles, see x86-64 instance profiles.
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Reserved bare metal servers are a beta feature that is available for evaluation and testing purposes. {: beta}
All Gen 2 and Gen 3 bare metal server profiles are available when you provision a reservation in an available MZR.
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Consider the following limitations before you provision a reservation and provision a virtual server within that reservation.
- You can't resize a server that's in a reservation.
- Reservations comply with the VPC quotas and service limits. For more information, see Quotas and service limits.
- SGX isn't supported.
- Reservations aren't compatible with container services. For more information, see Using reservations to reduce classic worker node costs.
- A virtual server reservation can be used only for {{site.data.keyword.cloud}} Virtual Servers for VPC resources.
- A bare metal server reservation can be used only for {{site.data.keyword.cloud}} Bare Metal Servers for VPC resources.
Reservations don't have a resource quota. But, bare metal server reservations share your account's bare metal server quota. So, bare metal server reservations are limited by your Bare metal server quota. Keep in mind that bare metal servers that are attached to a reservation do not count toward your quota consumption. {: note}
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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.
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When your reservation is complete, a confirmation message is sent.
You receive a notification{: external} 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. {: tip}
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After you review and decided on your options, you're ready to provision a reservation. For more information, Provisioning a reservation for VPC.