Types of Virtual Machines in the cloud

A few different types of Virtual Machines can be provisioned on the cloud. These include:

• Shared or Public Cloud VMs that are provider-managed, multi-tenant deployments that can be provisioned on-demand with predefined sizes
• Transient or Spot VMs that take advantage of unused capacity in a cloud data center
• Reserved VMs that allow you to reserve capacity and guarantee resources for future deployments
• Dedicated hosts that offer single-tenant isolation