Designing for Certainty: How Azure Capacity Reservations Safeguard Mission‑Critical Workloads

Why capacity reservations matter now Cloud isn’t running out of metal; demand is compounding and spiky. Peaks concentrate by region, zone, and VM SKU, especially for popular CPU families, memory-optimized sizes, and anything GPU-adjacent. Seasonal events (retail peaks), regulatory cutovers, emergency response, and bursty AI pipelines all create synchronized surges.…

25/08/2025Azure Governance and Management Blog

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