Today, we are announcing the general availability of Azure Spot Placement Score, a feature that allows you to assess the likelihood of deployment success for your Spot virtual machines. Spot availability can vary across different combinations of Azure locations, availability zones, or VM sizes. Spot Placement Score provides the ability to evaluate the chance of deployment success on a near real-time basis, by assigning a rating of High, Medium, or Low for a given number of Spot VMs before deployment. This feature provides increased clarity and control, enabling you to make more informed decisions about which Spot VMs to deploy and where.
Using Spot Placement Score, you can achieve the following:
A clear evaluation of how likely your Spot deployment is to succeed based on specified parameters.
Identify the most suitable combination of regions and VM sizes to maximize Spot VM availability based on placement scores.
Improve the overall success rate of deploying Spot VMs by leveraging data-driven placement scores, reducing the risk of capacity issues or failures during deployment.