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description: In this session, Spot by NetApp Product Architect, Yaroslav Meniailov, will explain how you can overcome the challenges of utilizing Spot VMs safely and effectively across a wide variety of containerized workloads – even in production!
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Optimizing AKS costs with Azure Spot VMs

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Are you taking full advantage of Azure Spot VMs to maximize the cost efficiency of your AKS workloads?

In this session, Spot by NetApp Product Architect, Yaroslav Meniailov, will explain how you can overcome the challenges of utilizing Spot VMs safely and effectively across a wide variety of containerized workloads – even in production!

On the agenda:

- How typical spot VM savings compare to on-demand and other pricing models  
- Why spot VMs are so cheap in the first place & the challenges of leveraging them  
- Best practices and tools for mitigating risks and using spot VMs effectively 
- From test deployment to running Spot VMs at scale. What you need to know 
- **Demo: **Maximizing spot VM coverage for AKS workloads with Spot Ocean

Register for the session today to learn how you can start making more effective use of low-cost spot VMs to get the best possible value from your AKS investment.

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### Yaroslav Meniailov

###### Product Architect, Spot By NetApp

 Yaroslav is a Subject Matter Expert at Spot by Netapp, where he assists customer to make their AKS experience better, faster, and more optimized by using Spot Ocean, He belives that every problem can be solved and everything can be automated.

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