Public price for spot instances is more than the unit price for several records in amortized report. How is this possible? Because price for VM under spot pricing model is supposed to be much lesser than the public price.

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Public price for spot instances is more than the unit price for several records in amortized report. How is this possible? Because price for VM under spot pricing model is supposed to be much lesser than the public price.

Answer 1

Hello Dadaboina, Kiran,

Thanks for your question.

Price for Azure Spot VMs should be lower than the pay as you go price

A possible reason is the timing of the billing cycle, this can affect the reported costs. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/spot-vms

If the price difference is huge and we can't explain it with timeframes, I will recommend contacting billing support create a support request.

See: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/plans/

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Regards,

Abiola