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Exam AZ900 Topics: cloud-concepts Difficulty: medium

A film studio runs nightly rendering jobs that can be restarted if they are interrupted, and it keeps a few dev and test environments that tolerate downtime. It wants the lowest possible compute prices. Which pricing approach fits, and what is the trade-off?

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  1. A. Azure Reservations, because rendering jobs qualify for the deepest discounts without any commitment
  2. B. Pay-as-you-go, because it guarantees capacity is available whenever demand rises and prices stay flat
  3. C. A free monthly allowance, because compute used for rendering is always free up to a monthly cap
  4. D. Spot capacity: unused capacity at significant savings, accepting that Azure can evict the workloads when it needs them back
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Correct answer: Spot capacity: unused capacity at significant savings, accepting that Azure can evict the workloads when it needs them back

Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/spot-vms

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Official Answer (D): Spot capacity: unused capacity at significant savings, accepting that Azure can evict the workloads when it needs them back

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