Temporary Services with Azure Spot VMs
Do you have services that you need to run but you don’t mind when or how they run so long as they do? Azure Spot VMs, newly announced in preview this week could be just for you.
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Shut Down Azure VMs Out of Hours
Public Cloud is great for many reasons but two aspects of this greatness can also be a serious fall. Number one is the ease of which it can be consumed which means if allowed to, things can run away and spiral out of control. Number two is that you pay for what you use (pay-as-you-go). In normal circumstances, once you create a start an Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Virtual Machine, it will stay running until you tell it otherwise. When it comes to paying for what you use, that means paying 24 by 7 for that server, but the question is: do you really need that server 24 by 7? Could you cope with that server shut down the rest of the time?