You can use Azure Hybrid Benefit to switch back to pay-as-you-go billing at any time. Your virtual machine is charged a BYOS fee instead.

You can either convert these VMs to standard BYOS, Azure Hybrid Benefit BYOS, or Azure Hybrid Benefit PAYG.Īfter you apply Azure Hybrid Benefit to your RHEL or SLES virtual machine, you're no longer charged a software fee. Virtual machines deployed from pay-as-you-go images on Azure without Azure Hybrid Benefit incur both an infrastructure fee and a software fee. You can use your existing licenses and don't have to purchase new ones for use in Azure. On the other hand, 'BYOS' is a licensing option where you can use your existing licenses for certain software, in this case RHEL and SLES, on Azure virtual machines. You only pay for what you use and can scale up or down as needed. 'PAYG' is a pricing option where you pay for the resources you use on an hourly or monthly basis. In Azure, there are two main licensing pricing options: 'pay-as-you-go' (PAYG) and 'bring-your-own-subscription' (BYOS). Defining Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) and Bring-your-own-subscription (BYOS) This article explains the two Azure Hybrid Benefit licensing models and the process of converting to and between them.Ĭustomers may see savings estimated to up to 76% with Azure Hybrid Benefit for Linux. Enabling AHB saves money by applying the licensing costs for RHEL and SLES on top of the discounted rate of reserved instances. Feedback In this article What is Azure Hybrid Benefit?Īzure Hybrid Benefit (AHB) for Linux virtual machines enables you to take advantage of discounted reserved instance rates for your Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) VMs.

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