Generally Available: Instance Mix for Virtual Machine Scale Sets

We are excited to announce the general availability of instance mix, a new feature designed to optimize your Virtual Machine Scale Set deployments. Instance mix allows you to specify multiple VM sizes within a single Virtual Machine Scale Set, providing greater flexibility and cost efficiency. To further optimize deployments, instance mix allows you to specify an allocation strategy to optimize for price or capacity. **Key Features** * Flexible VM Combinations: Mix and match various VM sizes within a single VMSS to better align with your workload requirements. * Capacity-informed deployments: Optimize for the available capacity in Azure regions/zones with capacity. Optimized for more confidence that you’ll get the capacity requested. For cost-sensitive customers who want to still utilize capacity signals, the lowest. Price allocation strategy takes both factors into account * Simplified Management: Manage a diverse set of VMs in a single scale set, reducing the complexity of handling multiple scale sets. * Easily scale with a mix of VM offerings: When using Spot Priority Mix, customers can deploy a heterogeneous mix of VM sizes of both Spot and On-Demand pricing in their scale sets. * Attain Capacity: By utilizing a diversified mix of VM sizes, customers can tap into a greater pool of capacity, increasing their ability to get the capacity needed. **Learn more:** * Visit the instance mix [documentation](https://aka.ms/instancemixdocs). * Visit the instance mix [blog](https://aka.ms/InstanceMixGABlog).