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Azure Lab Services

Set up virtual labs for classes, training, hackathons, and other related scenarios.
OVERVIEW

Create a lab of preconfigured virtual machines

Easily provide on-demand or scheduled access to preconfigured virtual machines to support your scenarios. Teach a class, train professionals, run a hackathon, or host a hands-on lab—simply define your needs and the service will distribute the lab in the cloud to the recipients.
  • Invite users to access lab resources right away. When they sign in, they'll see a full list of virtual machines they can access across multiple labs to connect and start working—no Azure subscription needed.
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  • Manage your lab budget with usage-control features. Schedule designated usage times, or set up recurring automatic shutdowns and start times. Track individuals’ hourly usage, or limit usage by setting up quotas.
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  • As a managed service, Lab Services gives you automatic provisioning and management of your lab's infrastructure. Just prepare the right lab experience for your users and the service will handle the rest, rolling out and scaling your lab to hundreds of virtual machines.
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Features

Simple and scalable

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User access

Immediate access to virtual machines for invited users, with no need to share your Azure subscription.

Templates

Custom templates to quickly provision lab virtual machines and use repeatedly across labs.

Scheduling

Scheduling feature to automatically shut down and start virtual machines and limit usage hours.
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Scaling

Quick provisioning and scaling to hundreds of virtual machines—the service manages all underlying infrastructure.
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Security

Embedded security and compliance

34,000
Full-time equivalent engineers dedicated to security initiatives at Microsoft.
15,000
Partners with specialized security expertise.
 
>100
Compliance certifications, including over 50 specific to global regions and countries.
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Pricing

Pay only for what you need, with no upfront cost

With Azure Lab Services, you pay only for active usage in your labs. The hourly price of a lab instance bundles compute, IP, network, disk, and other costs, so calculating your bill is easy.

Frequently asked questions

  • A lab plan is a collection of configurations and settings that apply to a lab. Learn how to create a lab plan.
  • The new version of Lab Services replaces the lab account concept with the lab plan concept. Both are used for controlling the configuration and settings for the labs. Learn about the new improvements.
  • Lab plan offers many benefits compared to a lab account when creating labs in the service. Also, lab accounts will be retired on September 30, 2024. Any labs created with a lab account will stop working at that time. Learn more about a lab plan and how to use them to create labs.
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