{"id":119283,"date":"2019-12-18T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T07:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.licensingschool.co.uk\/licensing-blog\/?p=119283"},"modified":"2019-12-17T17:56:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T16:56:21","slug":"azure-spot-virtual-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.licensingschool.co.uk\/licensing-blog\/2019\/12\/18\/azure-spot-virtual-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview of Azure Spot virtual machines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Microsoft announce the preview of Azure spot virtual machines. Azure Spot VMs let you access unused Azure compute capacity at large discounts compared to pay-as-you-go prices. These VMs are evicted when Azure no longer has available compute capacity and must reallocate its resources. At that point, the VM is deallocated and no additional VM-related changes are incurred, but other resources, such as disk or network, continue to run and accrue charges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ideal workloads for Azure Spot VMs include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>development and test <\/li><li>workloads that can recover from interruptions<\/li><li>short-lived jobs which can easily be run again if the virtual machine is evicted.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Azure Spot VMs are created in the same way as regular VMs, but a flag is set at the time of creation, designating it as a Spot VM. At this point in the preview the pricing is fixed for a Spot VM, but in the future the pricing will vary based on capacity for a particular VM in a particular region. You\u2019ll be able to choose your eviction terms: when Azure needs the capacity, or when the variable pricing reaches a maximum price that you have set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a comparison of pricing, for an Fsv2 VM, the pay-as-you-go price per hour is $0.163, while the Spot price is $0.065 per hour, with 1-year and 3-year Reserved Instances at $0.142 and $0.1227 per hour respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find the announcement here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/36O659J\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/36O659J<\/a> and there\u2019s a useful FAQ at the bottom of this page: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2tsxXBO\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2tsxXBO<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft announce the preview of Azure spot virtual machines. Azure Spot VMs let you access unused Azure compute capacity at large discounts compared to pay-as-you-go prices. These VMs are evicted when Azure no longer has available compute capacity and must reallocate its resources. 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