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If you’re anything like me you try to utilise free tiers or cheapest pricing for personal projects. After all there’s usually no monetry profit being made from a learning experience so the cheaper the better.
I took a look at the cheapest Virtual Machine I could deploy into Azure.
Azure Standard_B1ls
From what I can tell the Standard_B1ls is the cheapest machine in pretty much every region.
Machine: Standard_B1ls
OS: Linux (Ubuntu)
1 CPU
0.5GB RAM
No additional disks etc
0.004 (GBP)/hour
This machine gives you a reasonable amount of resources for the money. Enough to spin up some very basic containers or try out some Linux config.
Cheapest Regions to deploy are below coming in at £2.99 (GBP) per month (730 hours) or just 0.004 (GBP) per hour if you just want some quick cheap compute.
If you’re looking to deploy a very basic VM for a personal project (or even a business) this is the way to go.
I’m looking at spinning up a Tailscale server in the near future which I will post about once complete, but this machine size will certainly be a contender.