Azure Spring Apps
Azure Spring Apps — commitment brief
Data sourced: March 2026. Verify current figures at the Azure Pricing Calculator.
⚠️ Retirement notice: Azure Spring Apps entered a retirement period on March 17, 2025. Microsoft recommends migrating to Azure Container Apps or Azure Kubernetes Service. Review the migration guide before making any new long-term commitments.
Coverage summary
Azure Spring Apps does not support Azure Reservations. The Enterprise plan is eligible for the Azure Compute Savings Plan on its infrastructure (Microsoft compute) portion, offering ~20% at 1-year and ~47% at 3-year. The Tanzu/Broadcom software licensing component of the Enterprise plan is not covered by savings plans and is billed at pay-as-you-go rates. Basic and Standard plans have no dedicated commitment instruments. Given the March 2025 retirement timeline, new long-term commitments carry retirement risk.
What is covered (Enterprise plan, Savings Plan): Microsoft infrastructure compute costs for Enterprise plan instances.
What is not covered: Tanzu/VMware (Broadcom) software licensing component of Enterprise plan (pay-as-you-go only), storage, networking, monitoring costs. Basic and Standard plan compute has no reservation or dedicated savings plan SKU. Free tier monthly grants (50 vCPU-hours and 100 GB-memory-hours per subscription) are unrelated to commitment instruments.
Azure Hybrid Benefit
Not applicable. Azure Spring Apps is a fully managed PaaS service with no customer-managed OS or software license component.
SKU / tier coverage
Enterprise plan — infrastructure compute
❌ No
✅ Yes (Compute SP)
~20%
~47%
Tanzu/Broadcom software component is NOT covered
Enterprise plan — Tanzu/Broadcom license
❌ No
❌ No
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—
PAYG only; negotiated discounts via Microsoft/Broadcom sales
Standard plan
❌ No
❌ No
—
—
No dedicated commitment instrument
Basic plan
❌ No
❌ No
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—
No dedicated commitment instrument
Reservation vs. savings plan
Compute Savings Plan (Enterprise plan only): The only commitment instrument available for Azure Spring Apps Enterprise infrastructure costs. Flexible hourly spend commitment covering the Microsoft compute layer across regions and other Compute Savings Plan eligible services. The Tanzu software layer is not covered and remains pay-as-you-go.
Regional availability
The Azure Compute Savings Plan — the only commitment instrument for Azure Spring Apps Enterprise — applies globally across all commercial Azure regions where Compute Savings Plan-eligible services run. Savings plan benefits are not region-locked; they apply automatically wherever eligible compute spend occurs. Azure Spring Apps Enterprise itself is available in all regions that supported Azure Spring Apps prior to the March 2025 retirement announcement.
Notable exclusions: Azure Government and Azure China regions are not supported by the Azure Compute Savings Plan. Given the March 2025 retirement, no new regional expansion of Azure Spring Apps is expected.
⚠️ Availability varies by SKU and region. Always verify in the Azure portal or via the Azure Retail Pricing API before purchasing.
Archera
Azure Spring Apps Enterprise (via Compute Savings Plan) is within Archera's commitment management scope. However, given the March 2025 retirement timeline, Archera strongly advises evaluating migration to Azure Container Apps or AKS before purchasing any new savings plan commitments. If a commitment is made, Archera's GRI/GSP wrapper can protect against downside risk should usage decline during the migration period.
Sources
⚠️ Azure Spring Apps is in retirement as of March 17, 2025. New commitments carry retirement risk. Always verify the current migration timeline before purchasing. Verify discount rates with the Azure Pricing Calculator.
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