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Build Linux and Windows virtual machines (VMs) and save up to 80 percent with Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances and Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server. subtitle

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  • Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins
    Https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/virtual-machines/linux#:~:text=Get%20up%20and%20running%20with,CentOS%2C%20Debian%2C%20and%20CoreOS. - Source: Hacker News / 11 days ago
  • Linux Crosses 4% Market Share Worldwide
    "More than 60 percent of customer cores in Azure run Linux workloads" https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/virtual-machines/linux So the Linux share would actually decrease if you exclude Azure ;). - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago
  • Azure has run out of compute. Anyone else affected?
    So does google, so does azure etc. etc. https://cloud.google.com/spot-vms, https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/virtual-machines/spot/ Spot instances exist just to try to turn over-provisions in to not a complete loss. You're at least making some money from your mistake. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
  • Infrastructure as code (IaC) for Java-based apps on Azure
    You can use virtual machines or virtual machine scale sets to host your Java applications. Scale sets, in particular, allow you to scale your applications across hundreds to thousands of VMs very rapidly. As we all probably know, virtual machines require a high level of management and configuration versus some other options out there. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago
  • Deploy my web-youtube-downloader in my Azure VM!
    The category is about Computing Captains and I use the Azure Virtual Machines to deploy my Web YouTube Downloader! - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago
  • Django cost for production.
    Why not just use an Azure VM, it looks like it's the equivalent of e.g. Amazon's EC2 instances: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-machines/. Source: over 2 years ago
  • Top 30 Microsoft Azure Services
    Cloud computing is essentially leasing out computational resources that may be too expensive or cumbersome to manage on premises, from a wide distribution network of managed data centers. Virtual Machines spin up Windows and Linux virtual operating systems that share physical resources, but are completely self contained environments that users can remotely access to deploy large scale workloads. - Source: dev.to / almost 3 years ago
  • Is there a way i can use linux or an older windows version online? my pc doesn't support virtualization
    Absolutely. There is Azure Virtual Machines and AWS EC2 at a minimum. u/mimes74 can play around with the free tier for a while. Source: about 3 years ago

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Azure Virtual Machines are one of the numerous forms of scalable, on-demand computing resources like VMware. VMs are typically used when you want greater control over any computer system than the other options provide.

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