Microsoft Azure · Compute

Azure Dedicated Host

Azure Dedicated Host gives you a physical server exclusively for your organization’s VMs, ensuring isolation from other tenants. It’s a straightforward infrastructure layer where you provision the host and then deploy your compute instances onto it, keeping your workloads in a controlled, single-tenant environment.

This setup suits enterprises with strict compliance or data residency requirements that demand physical separation. The main friction is the lack of a free tier; you pay-as-you-go for the dedicated hardware capacity itself, meaning you incur costs for the reserved server even if you aren’t fully utilizing its capacity for VMs.

• Free tier No
• Pricing Pay as you go
• Regions 12 · 6 continents
• SLA uptime 99.99%
• Compliance 13 certifications
• Provider health A