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AZ-900 · Question 41 · Domain 3.1: Cost Management in Azure
True or False: Azure Spot Virtual Machines provide a way to purchase compute capacity at a significant discount, but they can be evicted at any time if Azure needs the capacity back.
True or False: Azure Spot Virtual Machines provide a way to purchase compute capacity at a significant discount, but they can be evicted at any time if Azure needs the capacity back.
Answer options:
A.
True
B.
False
How to approach this question
Recall the trade-off of using Spot VMs (cheap but interruptible).
Full Answer
A.True✓ Correct
Azure Spot Virtual Machines allow you to take advantage of unused Azure capacity at a significant cost savings. However, the trade-off is that Azure can evict these VMs at any time if it needs the capacity back. They are ideal for workloads that can handle interruptions, like batch processing.
Common mistakes
Thinking Spot VMs are guaranteed to run like regular VMs.
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