Merge pull request #223190 from bandersmsft/ghissue103416

MCM - Minor update for classic VMs

Author: prmerger-automator[bot]

articles/cost-management-billing/reservations/reserved-instance-purchase-recommendations.md

@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ Reservation purchase recommendations are available in Azure Advisor. Keep in min
 - The recommendations quantity and savings are for a three-year reservation, where available. If a three-year reservation isn't sold for the service, the recommendation is calculated using the one-year reservation price.
 - The recommendation calculations include any special discounts that you might have on your on-demand usage rates.
 - If you purchase a shared-scope reservation, Advisor reservation purchase recommendations can take up to five days to disappear.
+- Azure classic compute resources such as classic VMs are explicitly excluded from reservation recommendations. Microsoft recommends that users avoid making long-term commitments to legacy services that are being deprecated.
 
 ## Other expected API behavior
 

articles/cost-management-billing/reservations/troubleshoot-reservation-recommendation.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ ms.subservice: reservations
 ms.author: banders
 ms.reviewer: nitinarora
 ms.topic: troubleshooting
-ms.date: 12/06/2022
+ms.date: 01/06/2023
 ---
 
 # Troubleshoot Azure reservation recommendations
@@ -30,7 +30,9 @@ It's also important to understand how the scope selection affects recommendation
 
 Azure might recommend purchasing a reservation for certain terms, and not for others, based on the cost savings identified. Specifically, three-year terms have larger discounts than one-year terms. It's more likely that Azure will find savings for a three-year term than it will for a one-year term.
 
-If you want to understand why Azure recommends a specific resource size and quantity, select **<Quantity> See details** for an in-depth, visualization showing potential savings over time.
+Azure classic compute resources such as classic VMs are explicitly excluded from reservation recommendations. Microsoft recommends that users avoid making long-term commitments to legacy services that are being deprecated.
+
+If you want to understand why Azure recommends a specific resource size and quantity, select **\<Quantity\> See details** for an in-depth, visualization showing potential savings over time.
 
 :::image type="content" source="./media/troubleshoot-reservation-recommendation/see-details-link.png" alt-text="Example showing the reservation recommendation See details link" lightbox="./media/troubleshoot-reservation-recommendation/see-details-link.png" :::