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Spot VMs and Spot VMSS — eviction policy, max price, workload fit
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Availability Sets — FDs, UDs, when AS still applies
VM AZ design — zonal vs zone-redundant, latency, AZ-aware LB, SLA
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| name | spot-vms |
| description | Spot VMs and Spot VMSS — eviction policy, max price, workload fit |
Capacity only (cheaper, fewer evictions) vs Price or Capacity.--max-price -1 to pay up to PAYG (only evicted for capacity).az vm create -g <rg> -n <name> --image Ubuntu2204 \
--priority Spot --eviction-policy Deallocate \
--max-price -1 --size Standard_D4s_v5
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