Create and manage thousands of virtual machines at scale

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.

Features

• **Quickly create and deploy VMs: **Create and deploy thousands of VMs in minutes with built-in load balancing and autoscaling based on centralized templates.
• **Manage and autoscale your VMs: **Manage and autoscale your VM pool based on customizable metrics, and consistently control and deploy VM updates.
• **Increase availability: **Increase the availability of your stateful and stateless applications across availability zones and fault domains at a large scale.
• **Choose VM images and consumption models: **Choose VM images and consumption models that best fit your needs while gaining full control of individual VMs within a scale set.