Virtual Machines Documentation

Learn how to create, deploy, and manage Windows or Linux virtual machines in Azure.

Quickstart

Create a Linux virtual machine using the Azure CLI

Quickstart

Create a Windows virtual machine using PowerShell

Quickstart

Create a virtual machine scale set in the portal

Concept

Spot VMs - take advantage of our unused capacity at a significant cost savings.

Concept

Dedicated hosts - physical servers to host one or more virtual machines.

How-To Guide

Proximity placement groups - get VMs as close as possible for lower latency.

Linux virtual machines

Windows virtual machines

Virtual machine scale sets

Tools

Tools for working with Azure virtual machines.

Azure CLI

Azure PowerShell

REST API

Other resources

Additional resources for working with Azure virtual machines.

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