Spot Virtual Machines are now available

Spot Virtual Machines are now available

Spot Virtual Machines or spot instances are virtual machines that draw from the unused capacity of Microsoft Azure. These can be used at a great discount, however these can also be evicted at any given time. anDREa has now made Spot VMs available!

Read more about Spot VMs and their implications here: Spot Virtual Machines.

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