I'm working for a research company. To elaborate our data, we are using R. For that, I deploy the R application via Docker container to a real server in our infrastructure and I run he application the Docker container in order to have the result.
Sometimes, we have a very big data and the calculation takes hours. This could happen once a month. For that, I'm thinking to use Azure. I want to create a powerful Ubuntu virtual machine when I run when I need my applications.
I have few questions though:
when a virtual machine is created, I pay based on the time the machine is up?
if the machine is off, do I pay?
do you have any advice how to implement that properly?
Thank you in advance,
Enrico