General Availability: Standby Pools for Azure Container Instances

We’re excited to announce that Standby Pools for Azure Container Instances (ACI) are now generally available! Standby Pools allow you to create a pool of pre-provisioned, pre-initialized container groups that are ready to receive workloads instantly. This capability significantly reduces cold start latency and enhances responsiveness for bursty, event-driven, or latency-sensitive applications. Whether you’re running APIs,…

03/06/2025Azure Compute Blog

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