Today we're excited to announce the preview release of Multi-region Compute Fleet, a new capability that allows you to dynamically distribute workloads across regions. Multi-region Compute Fleet is designed to bring unmatched flexibility and reliability on accessing compute capacity for your cloud workloads. This new feature eliminates the constraints of regional dependencies, letting your applications thrive wherever the demand takes them.
Multi-region deployment enables your workloads to run seamlessly across multiple regions, ensuring scaling, enhanced fault tolerance, and optimized performance. Whether you're driving global-scale applications or balancing unpredictable demand, Compute fleet delivers a new level of freedom and resilience to automatically deploy and manage 1000s of VMs (across a mix of SKUs, Zones, Regions and pricing model) with a single API call.
There will be a number of ways customer can use this capability, whether by running a stateless web service, large batch jobs, a big data cluster and or continuous integration pipeline. Workloads such as financial risk analysis, log processing or image rendering can benefit from the ability to run hundred thousand of concurrent cores/instances.
You can now simply specify your required target capacity by specifying up to 3 regions of choice for Azure to meet your capacity demands mixing both standard and Spot VMs. Compute Fleet will deploy the request capacity across the regions that best meets your demand from a customized SKU list tailored to your workload requirements.
Benefits of using Multi region Compute Fleet
Global Flexibility: Effortlessly distribute capacity across regions to improve reliability and reach.
Capacity resiliency: Experience automatic failover across regions to protect against unexpected regional outages.
Dynamic availability: Automatically deploys compute capacity from regions that best meets your demand from a customized SKU list tailored to your workload requirements
Simplified Deployment: Focus on building great products—without worrying about region-specific infrastructure.
Cost-Effective Scaling: Tap into cost-efficient resources like Spot instances and take advantage of regional pricing
Other benefits include...
- Manage and automate provisioning of 1000’s VMs, mixing Standard and Spot VMs via a unified API
- Launch 1000s of VMs with a pre-defined fleet configuration
- Attain superior price-performance by utilizing a blend of diverse pricing models, including Reserved Instances, Savings Plan, Spot, and Pay-as-You-Go (PYG) pricing models
- Expedite access to Azure capacity by rapidly provisioning instances from a customized SKU list tailored to workloads requirements across regions
- Define personalized fleet allocation strategies, catering to both Standard and Spot VMs, optimizing for cost, capacity, or a combination of both
- Hyperscale using Standard and Spot VMs to accommodate their growing application demand
Customers of Compute Fleet:
- Large enterprises needing to deploy and oversee thousands of VMs concurrently while maintaining an optimal balance between price, capacity, or both.
- Organizations, especially those rooted in cloud-native practices, requiring flexibility in deploying and managing latency-sensitive workloads across various SKUs, zones, Spot instances, and other Azure pricing models.
- Customers aiming to amalgamate pricing models and VM types within a singular application to expedite outcomes or scale up to tenfold more efficiently on Spot instances within the same budget
Availability & pricing
Multi-region Compute Fleet is now available in all Azure Public Regions with the exception of those based in China. There is no additional charge for using Multi-region Compute Fleet.
To learn more, visit the Multi-region Compute Fleet documentation page and sign up to try out the preview features to test these innovations today.
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