General availability: Azure Container Instances

Azure Container Instances is generally available, with a decreased price, an improved Azure portal experience, new features, and expanded regions. Learn more about the GA news in the [blog announcement](https://aka.ms/aci/ga-blog) and the [documentation site](https://aka.ms/aci/docs). ## New pricing To support new use cases and longer running workloads, Azure Container Instances will have simpler and more efficient pricing, starting on July 1, 2018\. Learn more on the [pricing page](https://aka.ms/aci/price). | | New price (US West) | Old price (Global) | | | ---------------------- | ------------------ | ---------------------------- | | Create fee | None | $0.0025 per instance created | | vCPU per second | $0.000012 | $0.00001250 | | Memory (GB) per second | $0.000004 | $0.00001250 | ## Improved Azure portal experience * Deploy containers with advanced options such as restart policies, environment variables, and commands to execute. * Monitor CPU and memory utilization of Linux containers from the overview pane. * View individual container events, logs, and properties from the dedicated containers pane. ## New features and region * [Execute (EXEC) a command](https://docs.microsoft.com/rest/api/container-instances/startcontainer/launchexec) directly in your container to launch an interactive shell. * Monitor CPU and memory utilization of Linux containers through [Azure Monitor](https://azure.microsoft.com/blog/azure-monitor-general-availability-of-multi-dimensional-metrics-apis/). * The [uptime SLA is 99.9%](https://aka.ms/aci/sla) for any container group. * North Europe is live, bringing availability to six regions: West US, West US 2, East US, North Europe, West Europe, and Southeast Asia. * Container Instances * Features * Pricing & Offerings * Regions & Datacenters * Services * [ Container Instances](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/products/container-instances/)