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
12/11/2025
What’s new — Managed Prometheus now supports VMs & VMSS Today we are excited to announce the private preview of Azure Managed Prometheus support for virtual machines (VM) and virtual machine...
8/8/2025
Background Troubleshooting outbound connectivity issues in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) can be daunting. The complexity arises from the layered nature of Azure networking, which can span NSGs,...
7/30/2025
Architecture Ansys Minerva baseline architecture has four distributed tiers (client, web, enterprise, and resource) in a single Azure availability zone. Each tier aligns to function and...
7/21/2025
When you deploy AKS, you deploy the control plan, which is managed by Microsoft, and one or more node pools, which contain the worker nodes used to run your Kubernetes workloads. These node pools...
7/10/2025
Announcing public preview for key security enhancement in Azure: Trusted Launch as default (TLaD) for new deployments of Gen2 Virtual Machines (VMs), Virtual Machine Scale Sets (Scale set) and...
5/19/2025
Evan and Russell host David Stamen and Vaclav Jirovsky from Pure Storage, diving into how they've integrated their Pure Storage solution as an Azure native service. Media...
4/24/2025
As HPC & AI workloads continue to scale in complexity and performance demands, ensuring visibility into the underlying infrastructure becomes critical. This guide presents an essential monitoring...
4/22/2025
We are excited to announce the general availability of instance mix, a new feature designed to optimize your Virtual Machine Scale Set deployments. Instance mix allows you to specify multiple...