Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Manage and scale up to thousands of Linux and Windows VMs.

Overview

Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets let you create and manage a group of load balanced VMs. The number of VM instances can automatically increase or decrease in response to demand or a defined schedule.

Key Resources

Homepage: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machine-scale-sets/
Pricing: https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/virtual-machine-scale-sets/
SLA: https://azure.microsoft.com/support/legal/sla/virtual-machine-scale-sets/
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News

Date News
12/6/2024
Authors: Ioan Dragan (ioan.dragan@microsoft.com) Ciprian Amzuloiu (camzuloiu@microsoft.com) Dragos Unguru (ungurud@microsoft.com) Introduction The Resilient Ecommerce Reference...
12/3/2024
Cale, Evan, Russell and Sujit discuss the recent updates in Azure and specially cover the Azure-related announcements in the recent Ignite 2024 conference.   Media...
11/19/2024
We are pleased to announce that the Azure VMSS Zonal Expansion feature is now generally available. This significant enhancement allows customers to transition their virtual machine scale sets...
11/19/2024
We’re excited to announce our new feature that increases virtual machine create and delete success in your scale sets. Resilient create and delete initiates auto-recovery from failed create and...
11/19/2024
Custom metrics for rolling upgrades enables you to utilize the application health extension to emit custom metrics to your Virtual Machine Scale Set. These custom metrics can be used to tell the...
11/19/2024
Rolling upgrades with MaxSurge for Virtual Machine Scale Sets is now generally available. Rolling upgrades with MaxSurge can help improve service uptime during upgrade events. With MaxSurge...
11/19/2024
Upgrade policies allow for more granular control over the upgrade process, ensuring that your services remain available and responsive during updates. The available upgrade policies are:...
11/19/2024
Azure Functions is Azure’s primary serverless code service used in production by hundreds of thousands of customers who run several trillions of executions on it monthly across many different...
11/19/2024
The next generation of purpose-built HPC Azure virtual machines Today during Microsoft Ignite, Satya Nadella unveiled our latest CPU-based virtual machine for HPC customers and their...
11/18/2024
Standby Pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible Orchestration is now generally available. Standby pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets enables you to increase scaling performance by...
10/17/2024
Installation of Argo CD Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. It allows you to define the desired state of your applications using Kubernetes manifests and...
10/16/2024
In today’s AI and HPC landscapes, GPU monitoring has become essential due to the complexity and high resource demands of these workloads. Effective monitoring ensures that GPUs are utilized...
9/4/2024
Sadaf Khan joins Evan and Russell to explain and talk about Service Reliability Engineering in the Azure engineering group.   Media...
5/22/2024
Introduction At last year's KubeCon North America, Microsoft announced the adoption of Karpenter in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) as an alternative to the Cluster Autoscaler (CA), referred to as...
5/21/2024
Azure Functions is Azure’s primary serverless service used in production by hundreds of thousands of customers who run trillions of executions on it monthly. It was first released in early 2016...
5/21/2024
Azure Functions is Azure’s primary serverless service used in production by hundreds of thousands of customers who run trillions of executions on it monthly. It was first released in early 2016...
5/21/2024
Overview Over the years, Azure Functions has heard a growing number of customers highlighting the need for: improved performance, virtual network injection for a Consumption SKU, scale to zero...
5/21/2024
  Industry-leading high-bandwidth memory (HBM) capacity and bandwidth targeting generative inferencing and AI training Artificial intelligence is transforming every industry and creating new...
5/7/2024
Standby Pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible Orchestration provides the ability to reduce scale out latency and increase scale out performance.
2/13/2024
Upgrade Policies for Virtual Machine Scale Sets using Flexible Orchestration provide a safe and consistent method to keep your scale set instances up-to-date.