Azure Spot vs On-Demand VM Pricing — Savings Comparison

What is the difference between Azure spot and on-demand VM pricing?

Azure spot VMs offer up to 80% discount compared to on-demand pricing, but can be evicted when Azure needs capacity. For example, a D4s_v5 costs ~$0.192/hr on-demand vs ~$0.038/hr spot (80% savings). Spot is ideal for fault-tolerant workloads like batch processing, CI/CD, and dev/test environments.

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