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articles/cost-management-billing/reservations/reservation-discount-application.md

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 title: How an Azure reservation discount is applied
-description: This article helps you understand how reserved instance discounts are generally applied.
+description: This article helps you understand how reserved instance discounts are applied.
 author: bandersmsft
 ms.reviewer: primittal
 ms.service: cost-management-billing
 ms.subservice: reservations
 ms.topic: conceptual
-ms.date: 08/14/2023
+ms.date: 07/12/2024
 ms.author: banders
 ---
 
 # How a reservation discount is applied
 
-This article helps you understand how reserved instance discounts are generally applied. The reservation discount applies to the resource usage matching the attributes you select when you buy the reservation. Attributes include the scope where the matching VMs, SQL databases, Azure Cosmos DB, or other resources run. For example, if you want a reservation discount for four Standard D2 virtual machines in the West US region, then select the subscription where the VMs are running.
+This article helps you understand how reserved instance discounts are applied. The reservation discount applies to the resource usage matching the attributes you select when you buy the reservation. Attributes include the scope where the matching VMs, SQL databases, Azure Cosmos DB, or other resources run. For example, if you want a reservation discount for four Standard D2 virtual machines in the West US region, then select the subscription where the VMs are running.
 
-A reservation discount is "*use-it-or-lose-it*". If you don't have matching resources for any hour, then you lose a reservation quantity for that hour. You can't carry forward unused reserved hours.
+A reservation discount is "*use-it-or-lose-it*." If you don't have matching resources for any hour, then you lose a reservation quantity for that hour. You can't carry forward unused reserved hours.
 
 When you shut down a resource, the reservation discount automatically applies to another matching resource in the specified scope. If no matching resources are found in the specified scope, then the reserved hours are *lost*.
 
@@ -26,19 +26,25 @@ A reservation discount only applies to resources associated with Enterprise, Mic
 
 The savings that are presented as part of [reservation recommendations](reserved-instance-purchase-recommendations.md) are the savings that are calculated in addition to your negotiated, or discounted (if applicable) prices.
 
-When you purchase a reservation, the benefit is applied at reservation prices. On very rare occasions, you may have some pay-as-you-go rates that are lower than the reservation rate. In these cases, Azure uses the reservation rate to apply benefit. When you purchase a reservation for an SKU where the reservation rate is lower than the pay-as-you-go rate, but because of instance size flexibility, the reservation is also applied to the SKU which had more Azure consumption discount (ACD) than the reservation. 
+When you purchase a reservation, the benefit is applied at reservation prices. On rare occasions, you might have some pay-as-you-go rates that are lower than the reservation rate. In these cases, Azure uses the reservation rate to apply benefit.
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+When you buy a reservation for a specific SKU at a rate lower than the pay-as-you-go rate, the reservation discount can also apply to another SKU due to instance size flexibility. This other SKU might have a higher Azure Consumption Discount (ACD) than the original reservation discount.
 
 ## When the reservation term expires
 
-At the end of the reservation term, the billing discount expires, and the resources are billed at the pay-as-you go price. By default, the reservations are not set to renew automatically. You can choose to enable automatic renewal of a reservation by selecting the option in the renewal settings. With automatic renewal, a replacement reservation will be purchased upon expiry of the existing reservation. By default, the replacement reservation has the same attributes as the expiring reservation, optionally you change the billing frequency, term, or quantity in the renewal settings. Any user with owner access on the reservation and the subscription used for billing can set up renewal.  
+Autorenew is set **On** by default for all new reservations while you're in the reservation purchase experience. You can manually turn it off. When tuned off, at the end of the reservation term, the billing discount expires and the resources are billed at the pay-as-you go price.
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+After purchase, you can change the automatic renewal setting by selecting the appropriate option in the reservation's **Renewal** settings. With automatic renewal turned on, a replacement reservation is purchased automatically when the reservation expires.
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+By default, the replacement reservation has the same attributes as the expiring reservation. You can optionally change the billing frequency, term, or quantity in the renewal settings. Any user with owner access on the reservation and the subscription used for billing can set up renewal.
 
 ## Discount applies to different sizes
 
 When you buy a reservation, the discount can apply to other instances with attributes that are within the same size group. This feature is known as instance size flexibility. The flexibility of the discount coverage depends on the type of reservation and the attributes you pick when you buy the reservation.
 
 Service plans:
 
-- Reserved VM Instances: When you buy the reservation and select **Optimized for instance size flexibility**, the discount coverage depends on the VM size you select. The reservation can apply to the virtual machines (VMs) sizes in the same size series group. For more information, see [Virtual machine size flexibility with Reserved VM Instances](../../virtual-machines/reserved-vm-instance-size-flexibility.md).
+- Reserved virtual machine (VM) Instances: When you buy the reservation and select **Optimized for instance size flexibility**, the discount coverage depends on the VM size you select. The reservation can apply to the VM sizes in the same size series group. For more information, see [Virtual machine size flexibility with Reserved VM Instances](../../virtual-machines/reserved-vm-instance-size-flexibility.md).
 - Azure Storage reserved capacity: You can purchase reserved capacity for standard Azure Storage accounts in units of 100 TiB or 1 PiB per month. For information about which regions support Azure Storage reserved capacity, see [Block blob pricing](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/storage/blobs/). Azure Storage reserved capacity is available for all access tiers (hot, cool, and archive) and for any replication configuration (LRS, GRS, or ZRS).
 - SQL Database reserved capacity: The discount coverage depends on the performance tier you pick. For more information, see [Understand how an Azure reservation discount is applied](understand-reservation-charges.md).
 - Azure Cosmos DB reserved capacity: The discount coverage depends on the provisioned throughput. For more information, see [Understand how an Azure Cosmos DB reservation discount is applied](understand-cosmosdb-reservation-charges.md).