Azure Spot Virtual Machines

Azure 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.

The amount of available capacity can vary based on size, region, time of day, and more. When deploying Azure Spot Virtual Machines, Azure will allocate the VMs if there is capacity available, but there is no SLA for these VMs. An Azure Spot Virtual Machine offers no high availability guarantees. At any point in time when Azure needs the capacity back, the Azure infrastructure will evict Azure Spot Virtual Machines with 30 seconds notice.