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> Azure feels like I'm starting a Boeing 747 instead of a VM. Huh... interesting, this has not been my experience with Azure VM launch times. I'm usually surpr
by voidfunc 4y ago
> Azure feels like I'm starting a Boeing 747 instead of a VM.
Huh... interesting, this has not been my experience with Azure VM launch times. I'm usually surprised how quickly they pop up.
- jiggawatts 4y agoDepends on your disks. Premium SSD allows 30 minutes of "burst" IOPS, which can bring down boot times to about 2-5 seconds for a typical Windows VM. The provisioning time is a further 60-180 seconds on top. (The fastest I could get it is about 40 seconds using a "smalldisk" image to ephemeral storage, but then it took a further 30 seconds or so for the VM to become available.) Standard HDD was slow enough that the boot phase alone would take minutes, and then the VM provisioning time is almost irrelevant in comparison.