Over the weekend, I was on a quest to find the cheapest available Azure Virtual Machine to house my Azure Kubernetes Service cluster. I previously wrote about optimizing storage cost with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), where I talk about the importance of selecting VMs that support ephemeral OS disks. But what VM type and region should I choose? Searching through reservation offers in the Azure Portal turned out to be tedious. This time, I’ll demonstrate how to find the best offers using PowerShell and export the results to a CSV file.

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