Azure Capacity Reservations with Automatic Consumption

Solving the ask – Automatic Capacity Reservations Historically, the setting to use a Capacity Reservations Groups must be defined while the virtual machine is being deployed or changed while the machine is deallocated. While this is still the requirement, the drafted Azure Policy (at the bottom of this document) automates…

17/07/2024Azure Compute Blog

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