Azure Spot Virtual Machines
Azure Spot Virtual Machines offer discounted compute capacity for interruptible workloads. You can deploy these instances or VM scale sets specifically for fault-tolerant tasks, leveraging pay-as-you-go pricing to significantly lower infrastructure costs compared to standard on-demand options.
This setup suits teams running batch processing, CI/CD pipelines, or other jobs that can handle sudden interruptions. The main catch is the lack of a free tier, meaning every instance incurs cost immediately. It’s not viable for stateful applications or services requiring guaranteed uptime, as capacity can be reclaimed by Azure at any time.
- Free tier No
- Pricing Pay as you go
- Regions 12 · 6 continents
- SLA uptime 99.99%
- Compliance 13 certifications
- Provider health A
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- compute99.99%
- database99.99%
- networking99.99%
- storage99.99%
12 regions across 6 continents
- Africa
- Asia
- Europe
- North America
- Oceania
- South America
Alternatives on other providers
Equivalent services on other clouds:
- AWS Amazon EC2 Spot Instances no price Compare
- Google Cloud Platform Spot VMs no price Compare