{"id":6033,"date":"2014-04-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/basic-tier-virtual-machines-2"},"modified":"2025-09-12T09:29:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:29:54","slug":"basic-tier-virtual-machines-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/basic-tier-virtual-machines-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic Tier Virtual Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With our latest Microsoft Azure release, we introduced a brand new tier of Virtual Machine sizes called \u201cBasic\u201d. This Basic tier of Virtual Machine sizes have similar configurations to their Standard counterparts &nbsp;with up to 27% lower prices and do not include Azure load-balancer and Auto-Scaling. These sizes are globally available in every datacenter except in China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We envision these sizes to be ideal for dev\/test workloads, batch processing applications, production applications which do not require a load balancer, or applications where you would like to bring your own load-balancer. These sizes do still offer the full Azure Compute Availability SLA&nbsp;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We want to give you as many Virtual Machine size options and configurations as possible. To meet your varying compute requirements we have offered Basic, with more coming in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"creating-a-basic-vm\">Creating a Basic VM<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Basic VM creation follows the same workflow that you\u2019re familiar with in the Azure Management Portal. This time, however, you\u2019ll notice the option to select the \u201cBasic\u201d tier. 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