Azure Spot Virtual Machines

Provision unused compute capacity at deep discounts to run interruptible workloads.

Overview

Using Azure Spot Virtual Machines allows you to take advantage of our unused capacity at a significant cost savings. At any point in time when Azure needs the capacity back, the Azure infrastructure will evict Azure Spot Virtual Machines. Therefore, Azure Spot Virtual Machines are great for workloads that can handle interruptions like batch processing jobs, dev/test environments, large compute workloads, and more.

Key Resources

Homepage: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/spot-vms
Pricing: https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/spot-advisor/
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2/24/2023
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10/18/2022
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