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Azure Spot Virtual Machines vs. IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure Spot Virtual Machines

    N/AN/AAzure Spot Virtual Machines offer lower cost unused Azure compute capacity at scale. Spot Virtual Machines can be used to buy unused compute capacity at cost savings and deploy workloads that can handle interruptions and don't need to be completed within a specific period of time. Users can also run workloads for development, testing, quality assurance, advanced analytics, big data, machine learning and AI, batch jobs, rendering and transcoding of videos, graphics, and images at a lower cost.N/A

    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AIBM Cloud Virtual Servers are customizable, public or private, cloud-based servers available from IBM. User can launch applications and software across blended, hybrid environments as the servers integrate with all cloud models.

    $0.01

    per hour

    Pricing
    Azure Spot Virtual MachinesIBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (dedicated host)
    starting at $0.22
    per hour
    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (dedicated host)
    starting at $149.00
    per month
    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (multi-tenant)
    starting at $0.038
    per hour
    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (multi-tenant)
    starting at $25.21
    per month
    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (reserved)
    starting at $0.02
    per hour
    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (reserved)
    starting at $13.27
    per month
    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (transient)
    starting at $0.01
    per hour
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Azure Spot Virtual MachinesIBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsIBM Cloud virtual servers include 250 GB of outbound public bandwidth, unmetered inbound public bandwidth, and unmetered private and management network bandwidth.
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    Features
    Azure Spot Virtual MachinesIBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Azure Spot Virtual Machines and IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    Feature
    Azure Spot Virtual Machines
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    8.7
    88 Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings9.081 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling00 Ratings8.676 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing00 Ratings8.664 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates00 Ratings8.573 Ratings
    Monitoring tools00 Ratings8.284 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings9.078 Ratings
    Operating system support00 Ratings8.884 Ratings
    Security controls00 Ratings9.178 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Azure Spot Virtual MachinesIBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    Likelihood to Recommend
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (89 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (5 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)