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SomeStupidPoint on July 26, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Azure Container Instances

Even with the fixed pricing data... it's still ~$360 a month, right?

So that's about 3x as much to not manage the VMs yourself in a cluster. For even a moderate cluster, that seems like it would rapidly stop making sense.

sz4kerto on July 26, 2017 [–]

Depends. If it's a short job, then setting up a new VM for it or even planning where it should run might take a few engineer hours. And engineer hours are really expensive.

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