Audience
Users wanting a platform to create and manage thousands of virtual machines at scale
About Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Build, on your terms, large-scale services for batch, big data, and container workloads using Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets, which let you create and manage a group of heterogeneous load-balanced virtual machines (VMs). Increase or decrease the number of VMs automatically in response to demand or based on a schedule you define. Centrally manage, configure, and update thousands of VMs and provide higher availability and security for your applications. Increase application uptime by using availability zones and availability sets to automatically distribute VMs in a scale set within a single data center or across multiple data centers. Scale sets run multiple VM instances of your application. Therefore, if one of these instances has a problem, your customers will continue to access your application with minimal disruption. Virtual machine scale sets guarantee up to 99.99 percent service-level agreements (SLAs) for your VMs.