Spot

In a previous article I have explained how to change the provisioning of a VM from being preemtible to Standard. There are situations where you have a VM deployed with the Standard provisioning model but you want to reduce its cost and the workload is stateless or interruptible.

Spot VMs is a great way to reduce cost for interruptible, stateless and fault-tolerant workloads like batch processing or containers. Starting these types of VMs follows the same principles as regular VMs. The following snippet launches a C4A Spot VM: