Microsoft Azure has recently (and finally!) released its new excess capacity weapon - Low-priority VMs (aka Spot Instances) that can reduce compute costs by 80-90%!
With Azure LPVMs You can dramatically improve your application performance and reduce your infrastructure costs while choosing the right workload.
In this meetup, Microsoft Solutions Architects and Spotinst will share ideas and insights that demonstrate how to enable the use of Low-priority VMs for testing and production workloads, the major benefits,
the significant cost reductions and how to get started - best practice.
With over 2 years of experience in running workloads on Cloud providers excess capacity, Spotinst runs everything from testing Dev environments to mission-critical applications for its clients in more than 30 countries around the world.
Agenda:
* 6:15 PM - 6:45 PM: Pizza, drinks, and networking
* 6:45 PM - 7:10 PM: Introducing Azure Low-priority VMs - save 85% on compute costs
Paulo Renato - Principal Solutions Architect, Microsoft.
* 7:10 PM - 7:35 PM: Using Spotinst to automatically leverage and orchestrate the use of Low-priority VMs * 7:35 PM - 8:30 PM: Questions, demos, and more chatting
